Your Vote Matters

Notes from America with Kai Wright

WNYC Studios

News Commentary, Politics, History, News

4.4 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

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?

Roxanna Moritz, former chief election officer from Scott County, Iowa, shares her story of what drew her to public service — and what made her walk away. Plus, Zaki Hamid, Director of Community Engagement at KUOW, reports his radio station’s community feedback club's response to the question “what election did you care about the most and why?”

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0:00.0	What election did you care the most about and why?
0:05.2	The last one we just had with Biden winning was important because people don't understand
0:09.8	their rights.
0:10.8	The Trump election just 2016, just as it was so dramatic, like literally a reality TV show.
0:16.7	Yeah, I would say a boy island at this point is like, what about a boy island?
0:22.2	Well, you could just like, what do you mean?
0:23.9	I mean, I ran for class president in high school, so that was the only campaign that I
0:29.4	have been a part of that I cared a lot about.
0:31.7	The Trump Biden election, definitely in this country, was the most important anywhere.
0:36.3	I'm 57.
0:37.3	Biggest political events for me before that, especially the fall of the Berlin Wall.
0:41.5	And did you vote in the midterm elections?
0:43.3	No.
0:44.3	No.
0:45.3	No.
0:46.3	No.
0:47.3	I can't say that I've been up to date politically as to what's happening.
0:57.3	Welcome to the show.
0:58.3	I'm Kushin Avidar, filling in for Chi-Rite.
1:01.9	Democracy.
1:02.9	It's a big word.
1:04.0	It's heavy, abstract, even its definition gets debated.
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