Voter suppression is dangerous because our democracy allocates power to every citizen.

And that power allocation is expressed in who we pick to speak for us.

When you live in a representative democracy, we don't get queried on everything we want.

What we do instead is pick people and we say, go speak for us,

do the listening, sit in the meetings, and then let us know what you did. But if we do not have the right to vote,

if that right to vote isn't real, then we can never pick representatives who share our values,

who understand our challenges, and who work for our progress.

And so voter suppression is all about stopping our voices from being heard by blocking us from being able to pick people who will actually serve our needs.

Every American has an equal voice in our Democratic, sorry, I couldn't get that out with a straight face.

This is a show about money and power.

Today we're focusing on power and looking at how power in our democracy is distributed.

Voter suppression is intentionally preventing or discouraging people from exercising

their right to vote. This can happen through legislation, propaganda, and blatant threats

of physical violence, or it can be insidiously woven into seemingly benevolent law.

Stacey Abrams really gets voter suppression. Not just because she's a

long-time studied expert in it, running like five different advocacy groups about it, and she is,

but because she faced it herself in an extremely public way.

Well, my name is Stacey Abrams. I am not the governor of Georgia.

Unfortunately, my opponent in the general election was the man in charge of the election,

the Secretary of State.

And Brian Kemp had held that position for eight years.

During that time, he had overseen the closure of 214 precincts, meaning that between 54 and 85,000 people physically could not vote.

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