(2016/03/15) Rolling back our voting rights (Elections)

Edition #998

Today we look at a variety of problems plaguing our elections from gerrymandering to restrictive laws intended to make it difficult for people to vote to our aging and deeply problematic electronic voting machines

 

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Show Notes

Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill

00:00:30 Ch. 2: Act 1: Why America needs nonpartisan elections - Open Primaries - Air Date: 10-20-15

Ch. 3: Song 1: We the People (feat. Chief Xcel) - Lateef the Truthspeaker

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00:03:13 Ch. 4: Act 2: .@MicheleJawando on the Voting Rights Act at 50 - @TalkPoverty Radio - Air Date: 8-6-15

Ch. 5: Song 2: Going Home - Niklas Aman

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00:11:46 Ch. 6: Act 3: Gerrymandering by race in South Carolina - @DecodeDC - Air Date 2-25-16

Ch. 7: Song 3: We the people - Chuck Brown & The Soul Searchers

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00:17:35 Ch. 8: Act 4: 16 States Face New Voting Restrictions in First Election in 50 Years Without Full Voting Rights Act - @DemocracyNow - Air Date: 02-29-16

Ch. 9: Song 4: Vote - Jefferson Coker

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00:29:05 Ch. 10: Act 5: Lawrence Norden on the Real Problems with Digital Voting Machines - @DavidPakmanShow - Air Date: 10-10-15

Ch. 11: Song 5: The System - Abscondo

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00:40:21 Ch. 12: Act 6: Nationwide Mobilization to Protect the Vote via @DemAwakening - Best of the Left Activism

Ch. 13: Song 6: This Fickle World - Theo Bard

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00:43:40 Ch. 14: Act 7: Voting - @LastWeekTonight w/ @iamjohnoliver - Air Date: 02-15-16

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Voicemails

00:58:41 Ch. 15: Where and how people live has a big impact on a person's life - Rick from Scranton, PA

01:00:45 Ch. 16: A perspective on post-scarcity economics - Megan from North Carolina

01:03:16 Ch. 17: What needs to happen in civil conversation - Anthony from Illinois

01:05:12 Ch. 18: Apple's business model - Ronald from Baltimore

Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics

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01:06:07 Ch. 19: Final comments on the confluence of digital privacy and Apple's business model

Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone

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TAKE ACTION:

Visit democracyawakening.org to sign up as a volunteer to help organize this event or to participate in April. 

Follow @DemAwakening on Twitter and on Facebook for the latest updates on the campaign. 

Engage with the movement to restore the Voting Rights Act via #RestoretheVRA on social media.

Sources/further reading:

"Voting Rights - and Wrongs: We're in the midst of the biggest rollback of the rights to vote since Jim Crow" (via Sojourners)

"North Carolina Exemplifies National Battles Over Voting Laws" (via The New York Times)

"Six Pieces of a Real Democracy Movement We've Never Had Before" (via HuffPost Politics)

DemocracyAwakening.org 

Written by BOTL Communications Director Amanda Hoffman.

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Produced by Jay! Tomlinson

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