Quick Take: Get Your Vote On
The Michael Steele Podcast
The Bulwark
4.8 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2024
⏱️ 15 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Michael is joined by Louis Reed, Michelle Bishop and Susan Dzieduszycka-Suinat for a discussion on how to close the turnout gap for formerly incarcerated citizens, people with disabilities and overseas Americans and the obstacles that stand between them and the ballot box.
If you enjoyed this episode, leave a review or share this episode with a friend.
Check out US Vote Foundation for more information:
https://www.usvotefoundation.org/
- Voting Rights Restoration Guide - https://www.usvotefoundation.org/voting-rights-restoration
- - Voters with Disabilities Guide - https://www.usvotefoundation.org/disabled-voter-guide
- - Overseas Vote - https://www.overseasvotefoundation.org/
- - You're Eligible Situations - https://www.us.vote/yes
Follow Louis: @LouislReed
Follow Michelle: @MichelleVotes
Follow Michael @MichaelSteele
Follow the podcast @steele_podcast
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Hey Michael Steele podcast listeners, Michael Steele here with another quick take from the Michael Steele podcast. |
| 0:13.7 | Check out what's going on right now. |
| 0:16.3 | Welcome back everybody to Michael Steele podcast. |
| 0:19.2 | So if you haven't been able to get your vote on, we've got the folks that can help you do that. Whether you are a felon who's working his or her way back into society and paying all the damn fees, or a person with disabilities is trying to figure out how you're going to access the ballot box or someone who just got the call to work overseas or you're actually serving overseas. We've got some wonderful guests here to help us walk through it. So welcome back, Louis, Michelle and Susan. What is the current state of things |
| 0:56.1 | from each of your perspectives five months out. |
| 1:01.2 | And I'll start with you, Lewis, in terms of where you have states that where you have obviously felons who have serious crimes, rape, murder, |
| 1:14.3 | they're likely not granted their right to vote again. |
| 1:20.2 | But otherwise, that space is available. |
| 1:25.1 | I mean, it's a more open space for a felon, |
| 1:28.6 | despite some of the difficulties we talked about. |
| 1:31.3 | Are there states that are coming online that are more and more green lighting? |
| 1:36.0 | Not just the return to society for felons, but their full constitutional ability to vote in that society. |
| 1:45.6 | Yeah, I think that the, you know, a larger question here is that I don't think that we can cherry pick offenses. |
| 1:51.4 | I think that the moment that we get into cherry picking. pick |
| 1:54.0 | I think that the moment that we get into cherry picking more serious offenses or convictions versus less serious convictions. We run into a very, very nuanced gray area as to those people can have it, but these people can. |
| 2:09.2 | And if we're going to, we're going to re-emfranchise people who are justice impacted. Number one, we need to humanize the experiences of people who are incarcerated. Let me say this Michael. In the 14 years that I was incarcerated. I never met a |
| 2:22.8 | felon I never met an inmate I never met an ex-con I met brothers |
| 2:26.7 | uncles aunties cousins baby mamas baby baby daddy's right folks who the barbershop, I understand a colloquial term. |
| 2:38.0 | You met everybody. |
| 2:40.0 | I mean anybody, right? But the one thing that I never met I never met I never met I never met the |
| 2:46.0 | pejorative that the system assigned to us in terms of you know felon the |
| 2:52.1 | labels that they assigned to us. And so I think that number one, we need to |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Bulwark, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of The Bulwark and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.