How to stand up for voting rights (with Andrea Hailey)

Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer

Civic Ventures

Business, Government, News, Politics

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🗓️ 26 October 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Behind every aspect of the voting system that makes it harder to vote, there’s a policy that made it that way. Andrea Hailey, the CEO of Vote.org, joins Nick and Goldy to explain how voter suppression happens, and what reforms would help ensure a truly inclusive democracy. Andrea Hailey is the CEO of Vote.org, the nation’s largest nonpartisan digital voter engagement organization. Twitter: @AndreaEHailey Vote.org: https://www.vote.org/ Website: http://pitchforkeconomics.com/ Twitter: @PitchforkEcon Instagram: @pitchforkeconomics Nick’s twitter: @NickHanauer

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0:00.0	Here at Pitchfork Economics, we love introducing you to other podcasts we think you'll like.
0:06.2	One of them is strict scrutiny, a weekly podcast about the Supreme Court and the legal culture that surrounds it.
0:14.0	Law professors Leah Litman, Melissa Mary and Kate Shaw bring you smart and dear reverent takes
0:20.0	on the nine people who have a whole lot of control over our lives, Supreme Court justices.
0:26.8	On strict scrutiny, the law isn't some abstract intellectual exercise.
0:32.1	It's a real force that affects us all. Every week you'll hear about the cases the Supreme Court
0:37.6	is considering, including clips from oral arguments and analysis on how their decisions are going
0:43.4	to play out in the real world. Subscribe to strict scrutiny wherever you get your podcasts
0:49.9	and prepare for the law to come alive. There's all sorts of reasons why the voting suppression
0:56.4	nonsense is going on in the country right now is dangerous, but for sure it will end up being
1:02.4	terrible for the economy. Every time the voting process is one that is cumbersome,
1:08.0	we have to remember on the other end of that is a policy that made it so. We learned from the
1:13.4	Trump years and the response of Republicans after the 2020 election how fragile our democracy really is.
1:25.4	From the home offices of civic ventures in downtown Seattle, this is pitchfork economics
1:30.4	with Nick Hanauer, the best place to get the truth about who gets what and why.
1:35.2	I'm Nick Hanauer, founder of civic ventures. I'm David Goldstein, senior fellow at civic ventures.
1:53.3	So Nick, sometime ago you warned America and your fellow plutocrats that the pitchforks were
1:59.4	coming, hence the name of this podcast. And one of the truths about history is that when you
2:09.1	look at the modern democracies, they weren't all that democratic for the most part. And the democratic
2:16.3	franchise only expanded as a way to avoid pitchforks. If you really look at the history of a lot of
2:24.0	these voting reform acts over the years, in Europe in particular and elsewhere, it was we better give
2:31.9	more people the right to vote or else they're going to come at us. That's right. These rights were never
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