Thank you for Voting with Erin Geiger Smith
The Preamble
Sharon McMahon
4.9 • 15.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2021
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Sharon interviews Erin Geiger Smith who is a lawyer-turned-journalist and the author of Thank You for Voting. If you’ve been paying attention to headlines in the past few months, you know the conversation around voting laws is now more heated than ever. But why? To give us a better look into why we are here now, Erin walks us through the history of voting in the U.S., covering everything from voter suppression tactics to why some women refused to eat until they were given the right to vote. As well, Erin debunks commonly believed myths about voting and provides us with practical and fun tips on how we can increase voter turnout in our communities. Lastly, Sharon and Erin discuss the ways the media reports on voting issues and why voting laws should not be partisanized.
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| 0:00.0 | Friends, thank you so much for joining me this week. I have a fantastic guest. I know you're going to love this conversation. |
| 0:08.0 | This is with author Aaron Geiger Smith, who is an attorney. She is a journalist, and she's written a fascinating book called |
| 0:15.6 | Thank you for voting. And she really knows her stuff when it comes to what it took for |
| 0:22.0 | everyone in the United States to be able to vote and she also |
| 0:25.3 | has some really interesting innovative ideas for how we could improve voting in |
| 0:30.6 | the future so let's dive into this fascinating conversation with author |
| 0:35.7 | Aaron Geiger Smith. I'm Sharon McMahon and welcome to the Sharon Says |
| 0:41.0 | so podcast. Oh my goodness, Aaron, thank you so much for joining me today. |
| 0:46.0 | This is a topic that Americans feel very passionately about in multiple directions. |
| 0:51.0 | A lot of Americans feel like we are doing a lot to suppress voting in the |
| 0:57.3 | United States and a lot of Americans feel like we're not doing enough to ensure that voting is fair, that nothing untoward is going on. |
| 1:08.7 | You've seen this just heat up dramatically over the last six months or so. |
| 1:13.4 | And I want to get back into that, |
| 1:14.8 | but before we dive deeply into what is going on |
| 1:19.0 | with voting in America today, |
| 1:20.7 | tell everybody a little bit more about your career path. How did you get to study this issue, |
| 1:26.7 | write about this issue? Tell us more about how you landed here. Sure, and thank you for having me. |
| 1:31.2 | I'm excited to talk to you. Sometimes when I say my career |
| 1:34.2 | path out loud, it sounds like a straight line and then sometimes I think how did I get here? |
| 1:38.7 | So here it is. I started my career as a lawyer. I worked at large law firms in Houston and New York |
| 1:44.8 | doing giant company versus giant company fighting over some giant contract. I had |
| 1:50.2 | been in journalism major in undergrad but had always planned to go to law school and at that time I was |
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