Voter Suppression
Ralph Nader Radio Hour
Ralph Nader
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2020
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Ralph invites filmmaker, Robert Greenwald, to talk about his new film, “Suppressed: The Fight to Vote,” about all the creative ways Republicans use to discourage people of color from voting. And the University of Redlands’, Shelli Stockton, joins us to promote the “tree plant-a-thon” organized in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. Plus, Ralph talks Super Tuesday!
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. |
| 0:05.0 | Stand up, stand up. |
| 0:07.0 | You've been sitting way too long. |
| 0:10.0 | Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. My name is Steve Scrove |
| 0:16.0 | analog with my co-host David. Hello David. Good morning. And the man of the |
| 0:20.4 | hour, Ralph Nader. Hello, well, the hour is about suppressing democracy |
| 0:26.4 | and the suppressor is getting away with it. |
| 0:29.2 | We're too lackadaisical on this |
| 0:30.9 | and we're going to try to wake you all up so you can roll up your sleeves |
| 0:34.8 | and let people have the full opportunity you vote. |
| 0:37.6 | Yeah and it's kind of appropriate we're doing this the week of Super Tuesday |
| 0:41.5 | where we know that there were long lines in both |
| 0:43.9 | California and Texas but on the show today we're going to take a bit of an |
| 0:47.5 | historical look about photo suppression during the 2018 gubernatorial election |
| 0:52.3 | in Georgia. |
| 0:53.7 | Robert Greenwall directed and produced the film Suppressed |
| 0:56.6 | The Fight to Vote, |
| 0:58.0 | which shows that during the 2018 midterm elections |
| 1:00.6 | in the state of Georgia, an election decided by 54,000 votes, over 800,000 votes were not counted. |
| 1:08.4 | The voters suppressed tended to be African American, poor, and Democrats. |
| 1:12.4 | Voter suppression is not new, but as Republicans African-American, poor, and Democrats. |
| 1:12.5 | Voter suppression is not new, but as Republicans employ more tactics |
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