The Gerrymandering Went Down In Georgia with Bee Nguyen
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🗓️ 8 December 2021
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Redistricting efforts are underway across the country, but it's become a contentious process. The Department of Justice, for example, filed a lawsuit against the newly drawn maps in Texas on Monday, arguing that the maps discriminate against voters of color.
Today, we zero in on what redistricting efforts look like in Georgia, a battleground state that Republicans want to control . Democratic state lawmaker Bee Nguyen joins us to talk about the future of voting in the state of Georgia, along with her campaign for Georgia’s Secretary of State.
Show Notes:
Watch Crooked Media's "What A Year" – https://bit.ly/31saLoL
FiveThirtyEight: "What Redistricting Looks Like In Every State" – https://53eig.ht/3pwx0Sq
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, December 8th. I'm Gideon Resnick. |
| 0:08.4 | And I'm Josie Defi Rice and this is What a Day. |
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| 0:23.2 | ruin the party. |
| 0:24.2 | We are your last call. |
| 0:25.2 | Absolutely true. |
| 0:31.2 | So, HeyWod Squad, we're doing things a little differently today. |
| 0:34.4 | The What a Day team took part in Krikets what a year, a live stream event to raise money |
| 0:38.3 | for the No Off Years Fund, which supports local elections and local activism. |
| 0:42.5 | That happened yesterday, so you can re-watch the broadcast now on YouTube to see all of |
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| 0:49.0 | Yes, I did not embarrass myself, we think. |
| 0:52.6 | So we're going to devote our whole show today to a special interview that's also about |
| 0:56.4 | how important local elections are as well as fair representation. |
| 1:00.8 | As you know, we've been covering the contentious issue of redistricting, which only happens |
| 1:04.8 | every 10 years after the US census results are announced. |
| 1:08.3 | It is extremely important because a single political party could take control of what is otherwise |
| 1:12.6 | and evenly divided state, and that is often exactly what happens. |
| 1:16.9 | As we reported about on yesterday's show, the Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against |
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