What Next: Should Democrats Compromise on Election Reform?

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🗓️ 13 January 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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For the past year, Democrats have been touting the importance of passing two huge federal voting protections bills. If those plans can’t pass, should the party tackle straight-up election subversion? Guest: Rick Hasen, professor of law and political science at the University of California–Irvine School of Law and author of Election Meltdown: Dirty Tricks, Distrust, and the Threat to American Democracy. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:37.0	Earlier this week, President Biden and the Vice President Kamala Harris
0:41.6	gave these deeply weird speeches in Georgia.
0:46.0	Good afternoon Atlanta.
0:50.2	The speeches weren't weird because they were wrong.
0:53.2	They were weird because their timings seemed off.
0:56.9	The President and his VP were talking about voting rights.
1:00.3	Two landmark bills sit before the United States Senate.
1:04.4	The John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act
1:07.0	and the Freedom to Vote Act.
1:12.0	If you've been paying attention, you know that over the last year,
1:15.9	Democrats have been crafting these two massive voting reform bills.
1:20.8	You also know those bills don't seem to be going anywhere.
1:25.0	We must find a way to pass these voting rights bill.
1:28.7	Debate them. Vote. Let the majority prevail.
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