If Prisoners Could Vote

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🗓️ 12 March 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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We talk about polls a lot on this podcast. State polls, national polls, polls that make you shrug and vote for the other guy. Today, we’re talking about one of the most unusual polls we’ve ever seen: Slate teamed up with The Marshall Project to conduct a survey of incarcerated people across the country. We received 8,000 responses about political awakenings, party affiliations, and the biggest problems facing the country. Guests: Nicole Lewis, a reporter at The Marshall Project, and Lawrence Bartley, director of “News Inside” for The Marshall Project. Slate Plus members get ad-free podcasts and bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence. Sign up now to listen and support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.2	You might have noticed something over the past few years.
0:36.8	Happening now, there's a push by some Missouri lawmakers to
0:41.2	eliminate these.
0:42.2	This wave of states restoring voting rights for people of
0:45.2	serve time in prison for serious crimes.
0:48.2	Kentucky's new governor has given voting rights back to more than 140,000 felons.
0:53.9	Virginia governor Terry McCall have signed a sweeping order today to
0:58.4	restore voting rights to more than two hundred and twenty-nine convicted felons.
1:02.4	These actions have been seen as a way to run up the score for Democrats.
1:06.6	It was just conventional wisdom back when Virginia's governor expanded
1:09.7	voting rights in 2016.
1:11.5	Republicans in the Commonwealth quickly accused the governor of abusing his
1:15.4	executive power to help Democrat Hillary Clinton win a battleground state.
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