Voting Rights, Election Law, and the Midterms
We the People
National Constitution Center
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🗓️ 1 November 2018
⏱️ 48 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center and welcome to |
| 0:09.9 | We The People, a weekly show of constitutional debate. |
| 0:13.4 | The National Constitution Center is a nonpartisan nonprofit chartered by Congress to increase awareness |
| 0:19.7 | and understanding of the Constitution among the American people. |
| 0:23.7 | We're thrilled to produce this episode of We the People in partnership with Balladipedia, the digital |
| 0:28.9 | Encyclopedia of American politics and elections. |
| 0:32.3 | Balladpedia shares objective neutral information that informs millions of voters and candidates. |
| 0:37.0 | And we are excited that they're here to join our nonpartisan exploration of the text and history of the election clause of the Constitution |
| 0:45.3 | and some of the leading court cases that are bubbling up in America. From ballot |
| 0:51.8 | media we're thrilled to have joining us Sarah Rosier. |
| 0:56.0 | Sarah is Ballotpedia's news editor. |
| 0:59.0 | She's been at Ballotpedia since 2013 and has served as director of the Congress Project and covered |
| 1:04.4 | everything for presidential elections to the federal courts. Sarah, thank you so |
| 1:08.1 | much for joining. Yeah, thanks for having me. And Sarah is joined by the co-authors of our interactive Constitution |
| 1:14.5 | explainer on the Elections Clause. |
| 1:17.0 | Michael Morley and Fernita Tolson |
| 1:18.8 | and dear listeners, just as Franklin Roosevelt |
| 1:21.3 | asked the American people to take out their maps during the radio show, |
| 1:24.8 | I want you to take out the interactive Constitution explainer on the election clause so you can |
| 1:29.5 | explore Michael and Franita's areas of agreement and disagreement. |
| 1:33.4 | Michael Morley is assistant professor at Florida State University College of Law, |
| 1:38.3 | is where he specializes in constitutional law and election law, |
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