Crooked Coffee: The Fight Against Voter Suppression

Into the Mix

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Documentary, Society & Culture

4.3 • 537 Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Ms. Livvy has watched as Georgia has become ground zero for voter suppression efforts. Laws that wipe people from the polls are popping up left and right, all claiming to curb so-called voter fraud… even though studies have shown over and over again that rates of voter fraud are between 0.0003 percent and 0.0025 percent. Here’s what is a real issue: voter suppression. And as we get ready to cast our votes in November, the best way to make sure our election is representative of the country is to ensure that everyone who’s eligible can vote. Here’s how you can help. Learn more at benjerry.com/vote and get involved with Black Voters Matter here.

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0:00.0	This is Into the Mix, a Ben and Jerry's podcast about joy and justice, produced with Vox Creative.
0:07.5	I'm Ashley C. Ford.
0:11.3	Last week on Into the Mix.
0:14.0	There are people who literally put their spirit, their soul, they put everything on the line so that the rest of us can actually enjoy this democracy.
0:23.1	And Miss Olivia is one of those people.
0:25.4	I began to see what she was experiencing.
0:29.4	And I'm glad it wasn't me.
0:33.2	Everything I went through was voter suppression.
0:36.4	That last voice was Olivia Coley Pearson, former city commissioner in Douglas, a small town
0:42.9	in Copy County, Georgia.
0:45.2	She's been active with social justice and voting rights issues in her community for decades.
0:51.1	She was also the target of voter fraud allegations in 2016 for doing what she always does,
0:58.1	helping people access their right to vote. It didn't matter that she didn't actually do anything
1:04.0	illegal. The trial had its intended effect. Fear. I often talk about voter suppression.
1:11.7	You know, it's like a three-leg. It's due.
1:13.6	It comes where there's some kind of legal justification of creating barriers to weaponize
1:19.9	a legal process, to make it harder for people to vote, to weaponize the administrative
1:24.7	process, and to create a culture of fear. That has always been the strategy of voter suppression.
1:29.3	That's Latasha Brown,
1:31.3	co-founder of Black Voters Matter,
1:34.3	one of the organizations Ms. Livy partners with.
1:37.3	In her several decades of fighting for voting rights,
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