The Fight for the Right to Vote with Daryl Atkinson

Factually! with Adam Conover

Headgum

Comedy

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Daryl Atkinson joins Adam to break down a recent partial-victory in voter rights in North Carolina, the historic disenfranchisement of black voters, why it is unconstitutional to connect someone’s right to vote with their ability to pay off fines, the set precedents for allowing felons the right to vote, and the work Atkinson’s group Forward Justice is currently doing in voter rights advocacy. To learn more about Forward Justice and support the work they do, visit forwardjustice.org. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	This is a HeadGum Podcast. I don't know what you think I don't know what you say
0:16.0	and that's all right
0:19.0	yeah that's okay
0:22.0	I don't know anything.
0:25.0	Hello everyone,
0:28.0	Hello everyone,
0:29.0	welcome to factually, and you know, it's election season.
0:32.0	Let's talk about voting. You know, it's election season. Let's talk about voting.
0:34.0	You know, we think of voting as a fundamental right in America.
0:37.8	Voting is part of what constitutes our Americanness, right? I mean, what else is citizenship besides being able to have a voice
0:47.0	in the affairs of your state and country? It seems like a basic right that we have as American citizens, right? Well, guess what? It actually
0:56.7	isn't, because the right to vote, I'm going to blow your mind, is not actually in the Constitution. I dare you, I do you, grab your
1:04.9	pocket Constitution, the one that you keep in your back pocket all day and night so that you can
1:08.7	refer to it whenever you need to. Pull it out, look at it, you will not see a right to vote on it.
1:14.7	You have the right to free speech, you have the right to free exercise of religion,
1:18.8	you have the right to not have soldiers quartered in your house,
1:22.3	but you are not guaranteed in the Constitution
1:24.8	a right to vote.
1:26.6	Why is that?
1:27.6	Well, it's because the founding fathers, the people who wrote the Constitution and its amendments,
1:31.7	actually didn't want every
1:34.1	American to have the right to vote. They actually worried, this is in their
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