(2016/10/28) The real way elections get rigged (Voter Suppression)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 28 October 2016
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Edition #1053
Today we look at a range of voter suppression tactics including voter intimidation from history and present-day
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Show Notes
Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill
Ch. 2: Act 1: Revisiting the hard fought battles for voting rights and the implications of new laws - @Making_Contact - Air Date 10-19-16
Ch. 3: Song 1: Until the Water Goes Down - Dan Romer & Benh Zeitlin
Ch. 4: Act 2: STUDY: Black People Wait Twice As Long as White People to Vote - @DavidPakmanShow - Air Date: 08-18-16
Ch. 5: Song 2: Adventure, Darling - Gillicuddy
Ch. 7: Song 3: A Theme for Bizarre Behavior - Clifton's Ford
Ch. 8: Act 4: A history of voter intimidation - Bradcast from @TheBradBlog - Air Date 10-3-16
Ch. 9: Song 4: That's What's Wrong - Good Old War
Ch. 10: Act 5: GET OUT THE VOTE via @NextGenClimate & Report Voter Suppression via @ElectionProtection
Ch. 11: Song 5: Time for Action - Secret Affair
Ch. 12: Act 6: Victoria Bassetti of the Brennan Center on the myth of widespread voter fraud - @DecodeDC - Air Date 10-20-16
Voicemails
Ch. 13: Vote yes for rent stabilization in the bay area - Mike in Mountain View, CA
Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics
Ch. 14: Final comments on a couple of the things making me really angry about our broken electoral system
Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone
TAKE ACTION
Volunteer to help get out the vote with NextGen Climate
Report voter suppression by calling Election Protection at 866-OUR-VOTE
Ask questions about voter ID laws by calling VoteRider’s national voter ID hotline at 844-338-8743.
EDUCATE YOURSELF
This Election Is Being Rigged—but Not by Democrats (The Nation)
North Carolina Republicans Tried to Disenfranchise a 100-Year-Old African-American Woman (The Nation)
Possible Election Day problems worry civil rights advocates (PBS Newshour)
‘The most chaotic election for people of color in 50 years,’ activist predicts (Star Telegram)
What we often forget when we talk about voting restrictions: the actual voters (Vox)
Indiana officials are trying to block almost 45,000 black citizens from voting (ThinkProgress)
Election 2016: Tracking Reports of Voting Problems Across the United States (NBC News)
This Is What Actual Voter Suppression Looks Like, And It’s Appalling (Huffington Post)
Trans Voters May Face Problems Voting in U.S. Election, Activists Say (NBC News)
Posted October 28, 2016. Written by Best of the Left Communications Director, Amanda Hoffman.
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| 0:05.6 | why all the code speak, what's that about? |
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| 0:22.7 | Now welcome to the award-winning best of the left podcast |
| 0:25.2 | with clips today from Making Contact, |
| 0:27.4 | the David Pakman show, the Tom Hartman program, |
| 0:29.8 | the Bradcast and Dico DCE. |
| 0:42.2 | My name is August T. Thinson. |
| 0:46.0 | In 1955, I tried to become a registered voter |
| 0:50.1 | because I had gone to the service. |
| 0:52.4 | So when I came out to service, |
| 0:54.0 | I thought I should register, you understand? |
| 0:57.3 | But since it made for me to go to the service |
| 0:59.4 | and fight for a flag when I didn't have the right to vote. |
| 1:02.8 | So I started throwing in a black and white marriage |
| 1:05.9 | courthouse and I had to take a written test. |
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