We’re Winning Big at the Polls

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🗓️ 9 November 2023

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On Tuesday, people across the country took to the polls and made one thing crystal clear: abortion rights matter to voters. In Ohio, voters passed an amendment to enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution, making it the seventh state to protect abortion access through the ballot box. In Virginia, voters elected a full pro-abortion rights majority in their state General Assembly, and in Pennsylvania, voters maintained a pro-abortion majority in their state supreme court. As we look to 2024, abortion rights will continue to be on the ballot, meaning that anti-abortion opponents may continue to chip away at voting rights as a mechanism to block the will of voters, using tactics like racial gerrymandering and voter intimidation. All voters deserve an equal opportunity to exercise their rights and participate in democracy. Today, we’ll get an election results update from Jessica Arons, senior policy counsel at the ACLU, who has been working to secure victories for reproductive freedom at the ballot box. Then, we’ll speak with Sophia Lin Lakin, director of the ACLU's Voting Rights Project, to talk about how her team is using a recent voting rights victory at the Supreme Court to fight battles all across the country.

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0:00.0	From the ACLU, this is at Liberty. I'm Kendall Seasmeyer, your host. It's November, which means that election season has come and passed. On Tuesday, voters all across the country took to the polls and made one thing crystal clear.
0:21.5	Abortion rights matter to voters everywhere.
0:25.2	In Ohio, voters passed an amendment to enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution,
0:30.7	making it the seventh state to protect abortion access through the ballot box.
0:35.1	In Virginia, voters elected a full pro-abortion rights majority in their
0:38.8	State General Assembly, and in Pennsylvania, voters maintained a pro-abortion majority in their
0:44.6	state Supreme Court. As we look to 2024, abortion rights will continue to be on the ballot,
0:50.4	meaning that anti-abortion opponents may continue to chip away at voting rights as a mechanism to block the will of voters, using tactics like racial gerrymandering and voter intimidation.
1:01.5	But all voters deserve an equal opportunity to exercise their rights and participate in democracy.
1:17.8	Thank you. participate in democracy. Today, we'll get an election results update from Jessica Arons, Senior Policy Council
1:22.4	at the ACLU, who has been working to secure victories for reproductive freedom at the
1:26.7	ballot box.
1:32.6	Then we'll speak with Sophia Lynn Lakin, director of the ACLU's Voting Rights Project,
1:37.6	to talk about how her team is using the recent voting rights victory at the Supreme Court to fight battles all across the country.
1:41.5	Let us begin.
1:44.0	Joss, welcome to it Liberty and thank you so much for joining me.
1:47.5	Thank you so much for having me. I am so excited to be here.
1:50.8	So for context for our listeners, we're speaking on the morning of Wednesday, November 8th, which is the morning after the election.
1:59.0	And I guess I just have to start here with asking you,
2:02.2	giving you the lovely task of sharing the good news, what elections and ballot measures were
2:08.4	we watching for last night? And what was the result? Well, the result was that we won. And we won big
2:14.4	time. I mean, basically abortion rights swept the board. From my perspective,
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