Welcome to How to Citizen with barrattun Day, I show where we reclaim the word citizen and use it as a verb and learn how to wield our collective power. I'm barrattun Day. In this episode, we are continuing our focus on voting, that super expression of people power, and we've been talking to folks who are on the front lines of this issue in many different ways, and in this episode we're talking to someone who's been a long time warrior on behalf of people power. She has the
job that Third Good Marshall used to have. That's how dope and committed. She is. Her name Sherlyn Eiffel. Her job President and Director Counsel of the n double a CP Legal Defense Fund. I had the opportunity to virtually join and meet Carolyn Eiffel during a voting of it a few weeks ago. And when I tell you I would do anything, she says, I mean it. If Charyln Eiffel says, double check your voter registration, I'm triple checking. Actually.
If Charyln Eiffel says be patient on election Day and beyond to wait for these results, I'm gonna be the most patient, most zen, most calm person you can even imagine. And if Charyln Eiffel asked me to take out her garbage, I will do that. I will be at your place, Carolyn. I will do this because I assume it is for the benefit of the many. It is for the people, and I know I'm right because I'm right about you. In this conversation, you know Charylyn who breaks it down.
She says, we need to operate at the highest levels of citizenship during this election. I love that phrase. She reminds us of the history of efforts to deny and suppress black people's votes, but also the history of overcoming those efforts. Here's Cheryl and if President and Director Council, which I might add is a very very dope job title. Hello, Hey, how you doing. I am fired up, I'm ready to go, I am tired, I am eager, I am impatient all
those things. How are you also angry? Yeah, you know angry. I have my moments of disappointment, but you know, mostly it's just you just have to keep fighting. Sherylyn. You're at the double A CP Legal Defense Fund. This historic institution been around since fighting on behalf of human rights, Black rights voting rights. How has the history the legacy of black voter suppression in the US evolved to what it looks like now, you know, how is now different
from them. It's a bit of a loop back. But yeah, I mean it's in just sing because I think people now are talking about voter suppression as though almost it's a new thing, Like people get that there was the Edmund Pettis Bridge, there was the Voting Rights Act, and then there was voter suppression you know, in fourteen and fifteen and sixteen, you know, but that's actually not how
it works. As a matter of fact, my first sint at the Legal Defense Fund was when I was a year out of law school, after I finished a fellowship at the A. C. L U. I joined then double a CP Legal Defense Fund and litigated voting rights cases for five years. That was in So we've been at this for a very, very long time, you know. Third Good Marshal's first huge Supreme Court win was in nineteen forty four. It was a case called Smith versus all Right, in which the Supreme Court struck down the use of
the all white primary election in the South. That was Third Good Marshall's case, and really his first big Supreme Court wins. That's nineteen forty four. We were founded in nineteen forties, so that's four years after the organization was created.
And I say all of that because I think people have truncated the arc of voter suppression and don't fully understand that the effort to keep black people from participating fully in the political process has been around forever and marked most of the twenty century, and now has come
back with intensity in the twenty one century. And the intensity was created really by the Supreme Court's decision in June Shelby County versus Holder, and that basically eliminated a key portion of the Voting Rights Act of that had been really effective in getting out ahead of voter suppression tactics, and the elimination of that particular section kind of opened up this new explosion of voter suppression and even worse, allowed it to metastasize beyond kind of a regional problem
in the South into kind of every corner of the country. And when you say voter suppression, you know, I have images of a variety of tools and techniques in voting, you know, removing polling sites to just drag out the line, so people bail on the process, or to impose confusing instructions, or to sue. Even there's this legal battles on the other side of this. What is the map of voter suppression techniques look like, Well, I think you've named some
of them. Voter persh is something that has really come back into vogue as well, since you talked about moving polling places, closing polling places, consolidating polling places, actions that were taken even this week by the Texas governor restricting the number of drop off boxes for absentee ballots to one per county. This is a decision he made with a stroke of a pen, just one person, deciding that now there will only be one drop box for absentee
votes per county. That could never have happened under preclearance prior to He would have had to submit his desire to make that change to a federal authority, to the Attorney General, or to the d C. District Court to
get approval. And when he submitted it, the Department of Justice would have heard from organizations like the Legal Defense Fund and other civil rights organizations, from local African American and Latino groups describing the effect of the change on them and most likely would have denied preclearance and prevented the governor from imposing that new restriction without a lawsuit ever having been filed. So the landscape is not only the actual mechanisms of suppression, but the way in which
they are allowed to go forward. And we're running behind them right filing cases, but they're already in place. And so it's the full gamut that you talked about. Its voter intimidation. You know, it is terrible voter id laws that are targeted at African American and Latino voters. You know, it's the full gamut. And it's an actual disgrace to see the kind of active creativity that goes into trying
to keep sitizens of this country from voting. This will sound naive, but I mean it sincerely on behalf of myself and any listener. Why do you think people in a democracy with these authorities would work so hard to make it so hard to vote? Power power and white supremacy. And I say that intentionally. I say those words very intentionally because you know, in twenty four when I used to talk about white supremacy in the context of voting.
In fact, at that point. We were challenging Texas voter I D law that was the most restrictive voter i D law in the country. It was passed right after the Supreme Court decision in Shelby County versus Holder. The state kind of resuscitated a voter I D law that they hadn't been able to get pre cleared, and it
was this law. And this law was regarded as the most restrictive because it really was pretty explicit in shutting down the kinds of government issued I D that you needed to use to be able to vote, and so identification forms that blacks and Latinos white be more likely to have, or Native Americans might be more likely to have, were now disallowed. But you could use a concealed gun
carry permit as your I D to vote. So we litigated the case along with a number of other groups, and the Federal Court found that the law was passed with the intention of discriminating against black and Latino voters. The same thing was found in North Carolina Omnibus voter Suppression Bill. Federal Court finds that the North Carolina legislature with surgical precision, that's the words of the court, with surgical precision identified the provisions that would be likely to
suppress the black vote. Voter ID law in Wisconsin, same found to be intentionally discriminatory. So what I was saying then was that this was white supremacy, right. You know, when legislators meet and decide they want to key some of their own citizens, black and brown citizens, from voting, and that they create provisions intentionally designed to suppress those votes, that in itself is white supremacy. And people would clutch
their pearls when I would say this. We didn't start talking again about white supremacy until Charlotte's film because people think of white supremacy as being Nazi flags, marching torches, um, you know, terrible slogans and all of that is true.
That is a part of white supremacy. But there is also a more genteel form of white supremacy, and that is when elected legislatures dressed for work in their suits and dresses and march into the state house, meet and convene and pass laws designed to keep their fellow citizens from voting based on race. So what is the reason white supremacy? The desire to hold onto power? And it's ugly, it's ugly. To say it. It's ugly for it to
be the truth, but it is the truth. And again, it's the truth, not because Sheryl and Eifel says it's the truth. It's the truth because a federal court in Texas said it, because the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal said it about North Carolina, because federal corton Wisconsin said it.
And so we have to confront that and be honest about your organization operates in a number of states, and I imagine you see things happening on the ground that we might not get a view of if we're paying attention to national media or in our particular state, depending on where they are. What are you seeing, if anything, with regards to misinformation and disinformation targeting the black community
right now? Well, I would say the biggest disinformation campaign sadly, has been conducted by the President of the United States around absentee voting. And we saw this in the beginning of the summer. It became important this year because of the COVID nineteen pandemic. We filed suits in a number of states. We work mostly in the South. I think people forget that the majority of black people still live
in the South. Black people live in the South, and it's also the place, obviously where some of the most intransigent suppression efforts and forms of white supremacy exist, although certainly around the country and we do work outside the South as well, But in any case, we began filing suit, particularly in the South, because of the COVID nineteen pandemic and because of our recognition that black and brown communities were being hit incredibly hard and are hit incredibly hard
with COVID nineteen infection and death. And I was particularly moved after the primary election in Wisconsin, which you may recall. You know, there was a case that went to the Supreme Court. Spreme Court decided not to to hear it to not disturb the fact that the Circuit Court had put a stay on a decision by the district court that there would be more time to return absentee ballots.
It was a very modest district court decision, but the Supreme Court basically just ignored the reality on the ground that this was going to mean that people had to come out and risk their lives and the very weak that the Supreme Court decided not to disturb the decision that stayed the district courts. Expansion of early voting was the same week that we learned that although you know, the black population of Milwaukee is black people constituted of
COVID deaths in Milwaukee. So it was a week when it was very starkly clear the toll that COVID was taking on our community. And as you may recall, they were there are these amazing pictures of the lines of voters, of people wearing masks, and I was torn between my absolute outrage and fury that people had to risk their lives to vote, and also my sense of just admiration and respect and humility that black voters were determined to participate in the political process and came out to vote
with their masks on, standing in line for hours. But we set about then filing these cases trying to expand absentee voter opportunities in the South. We were attacking in particular really onerous requirements like an Alabama, to file an absentee vote, you had to get the signature of two third party witnesses, plus have a copy of your government issued photo I D sent in with the ballot. So you have to interact with three other people, two people
designed ballot and somebody to get this copy. The Secretary of State of Alabama said, well, they should just go to Kinko's. So here it is. We have elderly black people. Have you seen their grandkids, right, because they're suffering from COVID. So we filed suit and actually just two weeks ago we won in the trial court. We'll see what happens with the appeal, but we won in the trial court
relaxing those requirements. But almost immediately at the beginning of the summer, the President the United States started tweeting this crazy misinformation about absentee voting, that absentee voting is fraudulent, that it's illegal, that it's a plot of the Democrats, which is it's actually ironic because Republicans mostly in the
past with the voters who used absentee voting. Um in fact, the black population for the most part, had issued absentee voting because black people actually like to vote in person. You know, we have souls to the polls for early voting that churches take up. It's part of our kind of civic co l Sure, it calls to mind our history.
I meant, even I really like to stand in line and and vote, and so Black people had not actually been big absentee vote casters, but with COVID nineteen, we thought it was important that we ensured that this avenue was open, particularly for our elderly voters. And suddenly we got this crazy misinformation coming from the President, which and and NonStop he hasn't stopped filing suit in Pennsylvania against the use of drop boxes and regularly giving people a
lack of confidence in absentee voting. And this was all happening at the same time that quite suddenly the United States Postal Service was under attack from the new Postmaster General, and we were seeing all these delays in mail, and we also have a suit, by the way against United States Postal Service, So all of this was happening at
the same time. I think the effect has been what you see actually this week, because we're already in the general election, there are it's early voting happening all over the place. You may have seen the incredible lines in Ohio of people just standing in line to participate, we saw in Illinois, are in Minnesota, we saw it in Virginia the first day of early voting. People want to vote, and they want to vote in person. People are also
sending in their absentee ballots. There's a record number of absentee ballots that have been cast already for this general election. But fighting through that misinformation about you know, absentee voting as a legitimate, legal, safe form of voting has been really a challenge this summer. Yeah, I don't know how to keep up the energy. I'm exhausted just hearing that. And I pay attention to this stuff. On the flip side, you know, what is restoring or bolstering your confidence that
people will exercise their constitutional rights? And what are you most excited about in terms of your own organizations work to boost that confidence. You know, it's a crazy thing. You end up in the most difficult time periods, and if you're a civil rights lawyer, you know you're so often talking about issues that people are ignoring or pretending are not there. And then suddenly everybody is talking about
the very and they see it. Right. But you know, the scales have fallen from America's eyes and people can see it. So there is an excitement about that that people. I don't have to explain to people what voter suppression is. When I say that, people know exactly what I'm talking about right, so that wasn't always true. So that's exciting seeing people really do what we We have a campaign, and we've had this campaign for years called Prepared to Vote.
So every year, because of course elections happen not every four years, but every year, we launch a campaign called
Prepared to Vote. We do on the ground election protection work, but we're always providing information before the elections so people can be prepared because we really believe that, you know, voting is not something you just wake up, you know, the morning of election day and say, okay, I'm gonna vote today, but you actually have to get yourself ready, and this year more than any other because if you're gonna vote in a person, you need ppe, if you're
gonna vote absentutey to apply for the ballot and so forth. So seeing people do that, seeing people prepared to vote has been amazing. We partnered with Lebron James on his More Than a Vote initiative to try to get new poll workers because once again COVID teen has meant that poll workers who are mostly elderly. Most of our poll workers are senior citizens, a quarter of them are over age.
Seventy poll workers are the nice people we see sitting at the table when we come in, they check us in, they make a sign, they give us, you know, polling machine to go to, they give us the sticker that says I voted. And but they're mostly elderly, and because of the pandemic, we wanted to make sure that we were protecting our seniors, and so we really have been putting out a call to encourage young people to become poll workers, and so we joined with Lebron James is
more than a Vote campaign to do that. We started it three weeks ago and we've already signed up twenty five thousand new poll workers. Thoud so to see people responding to the call, especially for young people, responding to the call to work the polls. You know, I've been saying this is a time where we need to be at our highest level of citizenship, and I feel like
that's what I'm seeing. The other thing is one of the you know, things I've been talking about for a very long time, is the failure to pay attention to local elections. So most of us go into voting booth, we vote for the president or the senator, or the governor, the mayor, you know, whatever other high salient selections. And then if we look at ballots when we get information back after the election, what we find is what we call drop off, which means people vote for those top races.
Then they get to the d A race, they don't vote. Then it says pick three judges, no votes cast. Then
it's the shriff election. People don't vote, So we have that or we have people who vote in those elections, but they actually don't know anything about those candidates, right, so they know a lot about who they want to vote for president, maybe who they want to vote for governor or senator, but they actually don't know about the person who's running for sheriff, when in fact, the sheriff is the person who's gonna make a decision about whether
they form a relationship with ICE and engage in immigration activities. Is the person who evicts people, and we're looking at potentially millions of evictions over the next few months if we don't get some serious COVID relief happening. So people
forget about those elections. People want criminal justice reform, but they're not informed about who their district attorney candidates are and what they stay and for, and so We've been really pushing this issue of local elections, and I would say this year it feels like the breakthrough year when I hear people talking about local elections in ways that I have never heard it before. I still say people
should pay attention to the Railroad Commissioners in Texas. I haven't heard people talking about that yet, but they should. That is that is a very important regulatory agency and they run every six years. But I have heard people talking about school boards, and I have heard people talking about, you know, the city council, and I have heard people talking about the d A races and that's very encouraging
as well. What are your calls to action to someone listening to this right now, how can they help ensure we have an actual, free and fair election. Well, the first thing is to be informed when we are in this like sea of misinformation. So we have the misinformation coming from the President about absentee voting, there's misinformation on
faith book. We don't know what the Russians are doing, but we know that they are a huge threat, and we know that they targeted African American voters on Facebook more than any other group in the election, and so we have to presume that that is happening right now. So the first thing is to get good information and
rely on good sources of information. We have a terrific micro site voting dot n a A c p LDF dot org, voting dot ana A c p l d F dot org, which is a kind of a one stop shop and you can get all your information there. So please stop passing bad information. Something you just heard that somebody just sent you that you haven't actually ensured is accurate, because our community really really needs to be informed. So that's number one. Number two. Prepared to vote is real.
You have to make a plan to vote. So if you are going to vote absentee, you need to request that ballot. You need to look to figure out what the rules are in your jurisdiction for returning the ballot. What do you need to do, what do you need to have in it? Who can bring it back if you decide you want to bring it back personally to the Board of Elections. How does that. I've heard people saying things like, oh, I'm gonna go around and help
people get their absentee ballots that please don't help. Please please check the law in your state because it may be illegal right. States have different rules. In Louisiana can only be a family member. In some places, the voter has to actually by writing designate who can return the ballot. So we don't want people making mistakes because we don't want ballots not counted, and we don't want people prosecuted for voter fraud on the other end of this election,
So that's important. Also, the prepared to vote also means like preparing, like actually looking at the sample ballot for your jurisdiction. One of the things that contributes to long lines is when you go into the voting booth and that's the first time you're reading the ballot initiative that's on the ballot, or you're reading the bond issue where they want to raise money for the library, or the constitutional amendment, and so you're in there for fifteen minutes
slow reading this constitutional amendment for the first time. No, sir, no ma'am, I need you to download that ballot, that sample ballot a week before, two weeks before, and educ hate yourself about what it is. So do you know when you're going into the voting booth, who you're going to vote for, what issues you're gonna go vote for and against, and you're not learning while you know people are standing behind you hundreds deep waiting to get into
the voting booth. And also because of the pandemic, do you really want to spend a whole lot of time in the polling place? Do you want to spend a lot of time in the in the voting booth? No, you don't make sure you have PPE. We put out a challenge to black churches to make sure that there should be no black voter standing in line. Who's saying, I don't have a mask, I don't have gloves. We
have black churches on every block. I guess it's virtual at this point, but that doesn't mean that they can't help with PPE, and we've been happy to see churches taking up the charge. So preparing to vote having PPE. If you're gonna vote in person, either early or on election day, bring your bottle of water with you. If you feel like you need to bring a chair, bring a chair, but be prepared to stand in line because we're gonna see turnout levels like I think we've never
seen before. There is so much interest in this election across the board, So you should be prepared to wait and if you're voting absentee, you should be on it already to make sure that your ballot can get in in time. The last thing I want to say is we have real concerns about voter intimidation, and they are real. Under normal circumstances, the recourse would be the Department of Justice. This particular Department of Justice, led by Attorney General Bill Barr,
I do not believe will be responsive. What does voter intimidation look like? What is your concern and how does it manifest? Yeah, it can look like a lot of things.
It can look like people who are challenging voters. And you may have seen that this is the first time in thirty years that the Republicans have been released from a consent decree that they were bound by because of voter intimidation activities they engaged in in some elections in New Jersey in the nineteen eighties where they had people come out who look like they were law enforcement, walking
around the polls and frightening people. Frankly, so they were under court order to cease and desist, and that consent decree was just lifted this year. So it's the first time in thirty years that that consent decree does not cover that conduct, and imediately the the RNC announced that they were trying to recruit fifty thousand people to be outside the polls to question people about their status, about whether in fact they are eligible voters. It's a way
of intimidating the immigrant community. So there's that they're the people who approach people and ask them about their status. Then there are people who are dressed as law enforcement or dressed as malicious in open carry states, who are carrying weapons and who are outside polling places. Now there's a rule that you've got to be a hundred feet away, but think about the long lines that we're gonna see right,
They're gonna be lines extending past a hundred feet. So the possibility of those kinds of individuals being close up on people waiting in line to vote is very real. Trucks of people caring Confederate flags is another one that we see fairly often. So we expect all these forms of voter intimidation to be an effect. And as I said, normally what we would do is we would patch right into the Department of Justice to the U. S. Attorney and that jurisdiction and expect some action to be taken
this year. We really need voters to get in touch with us, and there's a civil Rights Election Protection hotline. It's one eight six six hour vote one eight six six hour vote. Oh you are vote um. And we need people in real time. When you see something, say something, we need you to call in. We need you to reach out to the Legal Defense Fund tell us what you're seeing so that we can get activated and get local attorney generals and others activated to deal with the
issue of voter intimidation. That's gonna be really, really important. And I will tell you that I'm also concerned about intimidation after the election of people counting ballots, and so we're gonna be just vigilant through this entire process, and we need everyone to be patient. We've asked a lot of people to vote absentee. That means their votes should be counted. Those votes are not counted on election day,
they're not counted on election night. They will be counted on that subsequent week, and we want those votes to be counted, and that means we have to be patient. You know, I said the other night that you know decision is not in the constitution that's a television show that was created, you know, to gin up excitement about election night. We don't have to know that night. We need the votes to be counted. So I want to
make sure that our community is patient. There will be a lot of noise of people trying to suggest that something is wrong because we don't know who the winner is on election night, or because all the votes haven't been counted on election night. They're never all counted on election night. We count military ballots the week following the election.
We count provisional ballots the week following the election. So I need everybody to just be very calm, be very very patient, and really operated their highest level of citizenship. That's the closing question citizenship. This show believes that the word citizen should be interpreted not as a legal status, no offense to the lawyer in you, but as a verb, as a set of actions. And if you are to interpret the word citizen as a set of actions as a verb, how do you define what it means to citizen?
To citizen means that you figure out some part of your day every day that contributes to the democracy that you want to see. And I think this is what we have seen the last few years in this country. I think people thought that democracy was some kind of instant pop up thing that came into box and then you're a democracy, and then it's over, and now you're a democracy forever. Now we understand the fragility of democracy.
It requires active citizenship. It requires people who wake up and believe that they should inform themselves with the best information. It's people who have the number of their senator in their phone, so that when you want the Senate to act on something, when you want the Senate to act on a coronavirus relief bill, when you want the Senate not to push forward a Supreme Court nominee during the presidential general election, you can call that office right away
and you're not looking around for that number. We want people who are in constant contact with their elected officials. If you ever showed up at a school board meeting, ask yourself why, if you never showed up at a city council meeting, why why didn't you ever look at the people that you voted for. Why didn't you ever make them see you so that they could feel accountable.
If you did vote for in the last judicial election and it said pick three and you just pick three people because you like their name, or because they had a D or an R next to their name, or because they were a woman or a man. That is not responsible citizenship. You need to be educating yourselves about who these people are, who are going to make decisions about your child when they get arrested, who are going
to make decisions about the laws that govern you. And so I'm really suggesting that this moment calls on us to frame and see and define citizenship differently than I think many people have. As you point out, it is not just your legal status. It is not because you have a blue passport. It is a responsibility and it's what are you required to do as a citizen in a democracy. It is work. It is not that you
sit back on your laurels and enjoy your status. It is that you were work every day for this democracy, for bringing greater equality, greater justice, and a vision of a democracy that looks like what I think we want our children and our grandchildren and our great grandchildren to be a part of. Chrylen Eiffel, Rylyn, Director, Counselor, Matt and President, thank you so much for this time. Thank you, thank you for your voice, thank you for this show,
and um, let's just keep fighting. Let's keep fighting. We are so grateful to Chryln Eiffel for spending time with us and reminding us that citizenship is a responsibility and we gotta put in work. Follow the in double a CP Legal Defense Fund on all the social media's there at in double a CP Underscore l DF on Twitter and on Instagram, search for them on Facebook, or visit their website in double a c P l d F dot org. Find this episode, a transcript, show notes and
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roots better and how to fight them better. We went so far as to set up a whole online bookshop that actually supports local booksellers in the process, You can find it at bookshop dot Org, slash Shop, slash how the Citizen. Here are two titles on the shelf that we're setting up for you, stamped from the beginning by Abram X. Kendy, A Powerful History of Race, Racism, White Supremacy in the United States and Crusade for Justice, the
autobiography of Ida B. Wells. She is someone we all need to know so much more about, so I am proud to recommend her to you, because I'm pretty sure you didn't get that on your how to be Woke in the Summer of reading lists. Since we spend so much time talking about the Voting Rights Act, I suggest you actually read the Voting Rights Act, the original one, and once you do that, read an analysis from was written in The Atlantic by Van Newkirk. V A double
in will drop the link in the show notes. But if you one of those people that likes to independently discover stuff, find it and understand why that Shelby versus Holder decision that Cheryl and Eiffel reference was so important and so devastating, and why we need to restore something like or better than the Voting Rights Act. Finally, visit this website more than a vote dot Org. This is the organization that Lebron set up to help people claim
they're voting rights. And he's a three time champion, so do with the champs that he's done it well as organization has done it well, and they've partnered with many groups like the end up a l a CP Legal Defense Fund, and they have a really beautiful tool where you plug in your address and they show you all the different ways you can vote. Now, externally, this involves stuff more public out in the world, interacting with other people.
Here's where we've got first find out the exact requirements of mail land or absentee ballots in your state and share them so that every vote is counted. There are a lot of different rules and I want you to figure that out for where you are and tell somebody. And speaking of telling somebody, I want to make you a team Captain Lebron, if you will, I want to make you a Lebron for democracy. Why don't you become a democracy team captain and take the lead in making
sure that at least three people you know vote. Whether you can vote or not, you probably know three people who can, so take responsibility for them, hound them harass them, support them lovingly often until they vote. In a couple of ways you can do that. You can share resources so that they understand what all their voting options are. Send them to more than a vote of Votes of America are a number of sources that we have outlined
in the show notes and on the website. If they need a witness to sign their ballot envelope, offer to be that person. Offer to be the person to take the ballot and drop it off of them if they can't easily or safely leave their home. Be a team captain for democracy. Finally, support the polls themselves. We have asked previously to become a poll worker by signing up
at Power to the Polls dot org. But this time we know election day is likely to have some very long lines election days, i should say, and so you can support the people in those lines. Bring them water, bring them masks, gloves, umbrellas. If you're an entertainer, do
some entertaining. We know that there are people who are going to show up to these polls trying to intimidate and frighten people show up to do the opposite, Show up to support people living into their highest levels of citizenship, show up with love and in a pro democracy small d act of citizenship. If you take any of these actions, share them with us. Email us action at how to
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