Political Sociology (VOTER TURNOUT & SUPPRESSION) with Mindy Romero

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Alie Ward

Comedy, Science, Society & Culture

4.9 • 23.8K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2020

⏱️ 74 minutes

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If you need fuel to get excited about voting: here it is. How low is U.S. voter turnout? And why? Are mail-in ballots safe? Should you vote early? How has voter suppression worked in the past -- and the present -- to skew elections? Oooh, buckle up as the wonderful Dr. Mindy Romero, a Political Sociologist and founding director of USC’s Center for Inclusive Democracy, chats about what drives us to the polls, what keeps us away, how to celebrate election day, and why every single vote actually does matter. By the end, you’ll have a voting plan for the November 3rd presidential election, and maybe a shopping list that includes postage stamps and apple cider. Maybe some Fireball. Ps: VOTE. You deserve it. Learn more about Dr. Romero’s Center for Inclusive Democracy at cid.usc.edu, and follow them at https://twitter.com/CID_USC Dr. Romero tweets at https://twitter.com/mindysromero Resources for voting: Vote.org New York Times state-by-state info on voting Donations went to themarshallproject.org & commoncause.org Sponsors of the show: www.alieward.com/ologies-sponsors For more links: alieward.com/ologies/politicalsociology Transcripts & bleeped episodes at: alieward.com/ologies-extras Become a patron of Ologies for as little as a buck a month: www.Patreon.com/ologies OlogiesMerch.com has hats, shirts, pins, totes and now… MASKS. Hi. Yes. Follow twitter.com/ologies or instagram.com/ologies Follow twitter.com/AlieWard or instagram.com/AlieWard Sound editing by Jarrett Sleeper of MindJam Media & Steven Ray Morris Theme song by Nick Thorburn Support the show: http://Patreon.com/ologies

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0:00.0	Oh hey, it's that extra stamp you're gonna put on your ballot, alleyward, and back with
0:07.3	a very important episode of Oligies to get us all fired up about a powerful tool and
0:12.7	most of our possession are votes.
0:15.4	At first I was like, should I do a voter suppression episode in the middle of spooktober because
0:19.9	it's more scary than a poltergeist, but you know what?
0:22.9	No.
0:23.9	This episode won't be about scaring you into action so much as giving us all the juice
0:29.6	to see our votes as precious as a Willy Wonka golden ticket and to get pumped as hell
0:34.8	about using it.
0:35.8	But before we dive in, this episode don't exist without all the folks supporting at
0:39.6	patreon.com slash Oligies.
0:41.7	Thank you to everyone wearing Oligies, T-shirts, and totes and warm beanies and sweatshirts
0:47.2	from Oligiesmerch.com as well as everyone who passes this episode along to someone who needs
0:52.6	the facts and hitting subscribe and rating also keeps the show up in the charts, leaving
0:57.5	a review helps a bunch and to prove that I read them all, here's a fresh one, it's
1:02.4	from Zero Bugs, not a loud, who wrote, I find myself looking at the world a little differently,
1:07.9	leaning in too close to bugs and making friendly conversation with the moth that took up
1:12.0	residence inside my truck for days, before gently chewing her tiny tusha of the window
1:16.4	and onto greater things.
1:17.9	I also find myself using the phrase, boy howdy a lot, it just feels right on my text in
1:22.8	tongue.
1:23.8	Zero Bugs not a loud hello to you and the spider that's probably living on your porch
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