The Fight for Voting Rights Across the Country

Assembly Required with Stacey Abrams

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 3 October 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Stacey is joined by Mother Jones’ national voting rights correspondent and author, Ari Berman, to untangle threats to voting rights ahead of November’s election, what’s changed since the last presidential election, and how to push back to protect access this year and beyond.

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Learn More:

Links to Ari Berman's books:

Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People

Give us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America

Marc Elias’ Democracy Docket

To register to vote or update your registration: vote.gov

To find volunteer opportunities and get involved in protecting the right to vote: fairfight.com/lfgv

Stacey's new children's book: Stacey Speaks Up

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Assembly required with Stacey Abrams from Cricket Media. I'm your host, Stacey Abrams. It's that time of year again. The
0:16.7	leaves are starting to turn the north and summer is refusing to leave the rest of us alone.
0:24.7	Award season is revving up and new television shows will soon arrive. Oh and there's an election right around the
0:29.3	corner. However, just as regular as the quadrennial vote for president, is the resurgence of voter suppression.
0:36.4	That tendency by those in political power to quash the rights of others who want to get and stay on the voting rolls, cast a ballot or have that ballot counted.
0:46.3	In fact, the links to which some will go to silence voters has reached a level of absurdity. The jury has reached a verdict in the trial of the people of the state of Georgia versus Larry David.
1:03.6	It's not about what this man has done or the poor decisions he's made in the past.
1:07.3	It is about this heinous and needlessly cruel law.
1:11.8	That clip was from Curb Your Enthusiasm, which in its last
1:15.3	season chose to highlight the ongoing battle over voting rights in my state of Georgia.
1:20.8	In the episode Larry David gives water to Leon's aunt as she's in line
1:25.4	waiting to vote in Georgia and he gets arrested for breaking Senate Bill 202.
1:30.3	Yes, that's a real law. This is one that Republicans passed and the governor signed in
1:36.4	2021 that criminalizes anyone giving food and water to folks waiting in line to
1:41.3	vote. It also establishes new restrictive voter ID rules
1:45.0	and slashes the time you have to request a mail ballot. But Georgia wasn't done in
1:50.2	2021. Just this year the Republican governor and legislature expanded their efforts
1:55.6	with SB 189 which made it harder for the homeless to vote, added complications
2:01.1	for the disabled, and doubled down on the big lie of 2020.
2:06.0	Republicans of all Stripes voted to expand the ability for one individual to challenge an unlimited number of voters, paving the way for easy mass
2:15.4	challenges to legitimate voters. But Georgia is not alone. Across the country, it is
2:21.9	getting harder and harder to vote.
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