What Keeps You Voting?

Notes from America with Kai Wright

WNYC Studios

News Commentary, Politics, History, News

4.4 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

We’ve received a lot of messages from listeners in response to our recent episodes. So producer Kousha Navidar and host Kai Wright open the listener mailbag and one voicemail inspires a conversation with Dr. Carol Anderson, author of “One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying Our Democracy,” about the efficacy of voting and what we can do beyond it. And, we take your calls about what motivates you to keep voting.

Companion listening for this episode:

Your Vote Matters (9/12/2022)

So why don't more people vote in smaller elections? What motivates people to vote — and how that could inform greater participation in the upcoming midterm elections?

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0:00.0	Do you think your vote matters?
0:03.4	Yes, of course.
0:04.4	Yeah, I think my vote matters, because if it doesn't, they can take me off the tax
0:08.2	roads.
0:09.2	I live in DC, and DC is pretty much a foregone conclusion.
0:12.2	No, I really don't.
0:14.1	You know, politicians are just mad about what they say, I don't like voting for people
0:18.0	know what, what the hell am I voting for you for?
0:19.6	I don't know you.
0:20.6	You know what I'm saying?
0:21.6	So that makes you not even one of voting.
0:23.2	I think votes matter, specifically on a smaller scale, so like state and local governments.
0:28.8	A person you voted for may not win, even though you lose, you still gotta be confident.
0:34.3	Do you feel like voting is enough?
0:36.0	Wow, that's also a really complex question, no, we need to be engaged in my goodness.
0:41.1	The country's falling apart in my opinion.
0:43.0	No, I feel like voting is kind of like giving your kid an iPad, where it's like you don't
0:47.8	have to deal with it, like oh, I just did my duty.
0:58.8	It's Notes from America, I'm Kai Wright, and welcome to the show.
1:12.5	So one reason we chose our show's new name is we get a lot of notes from listeners.
1:18.6	And you know, sometimes they're voice mails, sometimes they're emails, I've gotten like
1:22.5	actual mailed written notes.
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