Ep. 32 – A Brief History of Voting Rights and Suppression

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Tomorrow is election day when we all go out and exercise our right to vote. But we didn’t always have that right. And since the very beginning of America, voter suppression has been an issue. I watched a new documentary on Netflix – Whose Vote Counts, Explained. It’s fantastic. The first episode lays out the evolution of voting rights and suppression, and I’m distilling it for you here, with a bit more detail. Get out there and vote!

Links

• Whose Vote Counts, Explained – A Netflix Documentary
• The Declaration of Independence
• The Constitution of the United States
• The 14th Amendment
• The 15th Amendment
• The 19th Amendment
• The 26th Amendment
• The Native American Citizenship Act
• The Voting Rights Act
• The 1960 Presidential Election and Mayor Richard J. Daley
• The Truth About Voter Fraud, Justin Levitt
• Minuscule number of potentially fraudulent ballots in states with universal mail voting undercuts Trump claims about election risks - By Elise Viebeck, The Washington Post, June 8, 2020

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