It’s getting harder to vote in America

Today, Explained

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🗓️ 4 June 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Texas isn’t the only state advancing legislation that would disenfranchise voters in Democratic strongholds. Vox’s Ian Millhiser explains why some voter suppression efforts are worse than others. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained. Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:51.2	It's today explained, I'm Halima Shah sitting in for Sean
0:54.2	Ramesh for him.
0:55.6	And I'm here to tell you that America has a voting problem.
0:59.6	The Brennan Center, which is a voting rights group up in New York, tracks all of the voter
1:07.0	suppression bills that are being introduced in state legislatures and there are hundreds
1:12.4	of them.
1:13.4	Ian Milheiser is a senior correspondent for Vox.
1:16.8	As a journalist, I find it a little frustrating because it's hard to know which ones are likely
1:20.8	to move forward and which ones are likely to go nowhere.
1:25.4	But what we have seen is this pattern of comprehensive voter suppression bill.
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