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So our most 29 00:01:34,080 --> 00:01:40,000 Speaker 1: urgent request to the President of the United States and 30 00:01:40,240 --> 00:01:45,160 Speaker 1: every member of Congress is to give us the right 31 00:01:45,240 --> 00:01:47,800 Speaker 1: to vote. The right to vote is very basics. We're 32 00:01:47,800 --> 00:01:50,440 Speaker 1: going to neglect that right in there. All of our 33 00:01:50,520 --> 00:01:53,400 Speaker 1: talk about freedom is the right to vote has never 34 00:01:53,560 --> 00:01:59,640 Speaker 1: been just granted freely. It has always been fought for. 35 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:03,200 Speaker 1: We do not want our freedom gradually what we want 36 00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:05,520 Speaker 1: to be fretting now it's been fat for her on 37 00:02:05,640 --> 00:02:09,600 Speaker 1: the streets. It's been fat for This is not a 38 00:02:09,760 --> 00:02:14,320 Speaker 1: partisan issue, is wrong. This is an American issue, deadly wrong. 39 00:02:14,680 --> 00:02:18,959 Speaker 1: To deny any of your fellow America the right to 40 00:02:19,160 --> 00:02:21,639 Speaker 1: vote in this kind because our democracy is found it 41 00:02:21,760 --> 00:02:25,560 Speaker 1: or ensuring that every eligible citizen has access to the 42 00:02:25,680 --> 00:02:29,519 Speaker 1: ballot box by John We've got to fight even harder 43 00:02:30,560 --> 00:02:32,880 Speaker 1: for the most powerful tool that we have, which is 44 00:02:32,960 --> 00:02:37,840 Speaker 1: the right to vote. This is how in America we 45 00:02:37,960 --> 00:02:47,959 Speaker 1: get voting right. I'm Katie Curic and this is Turnout, 46 00:02:48,360 --> 00:02:53,400 Speaker 1: a podcast exploring America's voting record, past, present, and future. 47 00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:57,680 Speaker 1: Voting is a cornerstone of our democracy. We the people 48 00:02:57,720 --> 00:03:00,400 Speaker 1: have a say and who governs us and what happens 49 00:03:00,560 --> 00:03:04,639 Speaker 1: in our communities and in our country. But the reality 50 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:07,720 Speaker 1: of how voting works in America and who gets to 51 00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:10,640 Speaker 1: do it has never been as fair or as clear 52 00:03:10,760 --> 00:03:15,120 Speaker 1: cut as the story of this nation promised. In fact, 53 00:03:15,200 --> 00:03:18,920 Speaker 1: the act or even attempt to vote is often described 54 00:03:19,040 --> 00:03:23,480 Speaker 1: as a fight, a struggle, sometimes even a war. But 55 00:03:23,840 --> 00:03:26,880 Speaker 1: how did this happen? And who has been waging this battle? 56 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:30,560 Speaker 1: Who's been fighting to make every generation's path to the 57 00:03:30,639 --> 00:03:34,480 Speaker 1: ballot a little less arduous? And who among us has 58 00:03:34,600 --> 00:03:37,480 Speaker 1: taken up the baton? These are the questions at the 59 00:03:37,520 --> 00:03:39,920 Speaker 1: heart of this series, and the only way to start 60 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:46,480 Speaker 1: is at the beginning. For all of our imperfections, the 61 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:52,640 Speaker 1: nation was conceived in an experiment of liberty that would 62 00:03:52,680 --> 00:03:59,040 Speaker 1: remove the American experience from the monarchs, the nobles, the 63 00:03:59,120 --> 00:04:02,760 Speaker 1: inherited power or of the old world. And who better 64 00:04:02,880 --> 00:04:06,240 Speaker 1: to begin with? How are you John all right trying 65 00:04:06,320 --> 00:04:10,720 Speaker 1: to save America? You know then one of this country's 66 00:04:10,840 --> 00:04:15,720 Speaker 1: leading historians and biographers, John mitchum I invited him into 67 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:19,080 Speaker 1: my zoom studio to find out what our founding tells 68 00:04:19,200 --> 00:04:24,760 Speaker 1: us about the continuing war over voting, religious liberty, freedom 69 00:04:24,839 --> 00:04:28,600 Speaker 1: of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of the press. These 70 00:04:28,640 --> 00:04:33,200 Speaker 1: were essential liberties that the founders believed in were willing 71 00:04:33,279 --> 00:04:36,400 Speaker 1: to die for. What were the hopes and dreams, John, 72 00:04:36,480 --> 00:04:40,280 Speaker 1: of the founding fathers. The hope was that we would 73 00:04:40,279 --> 00:04:43,920 Speaker 1: be a popular government, not necessarily a democracy, but a 74 00:04:44,040 --> 00:04:47,839 Speaker 1: government that literally was based on the authority, the ultimate 75 00:04:47,880 --> 00:04:52,240 Speaker 1: authority of the people. And so the work of Philadelphia 76 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:57,280 Speaker 1: in seventeen eighty seven through the ratification in seventeen was 77 00:04:57,400 --> 00:05:02,799 Speaker 1: to find a way for the people to be sovereign. Comma. 78 00:05:03,400 --> 00:05:07,560 Speaker 1: But and so much of America hangs on the comma. 79 00:05:07,760 --> 00:05:12,320 Speaker 1: But they believed that the people could ultimately be trusted 80 00:05:12,480 --> 00:05:16,040 Speaker 1: to choose their rulers. They did not believe that the 81 00:05:16,160 --> 00:05:20,760 Speaker 1: people themselves could rule from day to day. And they 82 00:05:20,800 --> 00:05:26,000 Speaker 1: believe that those rulers would be manifestations of the people themselves, 83 00:05:26,160 --> 00:05:30,880 Speaker 1: and the people were subject to appetite and ambition, and so, 84 00:05:31,160 --> 00:05:34,800 Speaker 1: as Madison said, ambition had to be made to counteract ambition, 85 00:05:35,080 --> 00:05:38,120 Speaker 1: which is why you have the electoral College, you have 86 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:42,719 Speaker 1: the Senate, you have divided kinds of representation to try 87 00:05:42,760 --> 00:05:45,960 Speaker 1: to find a way to achieve that most elusive of things, 88 00:05:46,080 --> 00:05:52,000 Speaker 1: which was balanced. When the founding fathers set up the system, 89 00:05:52,640 --> 00:05:56,160 Speaker 1: it was predicated on a lot of these ideas of 90 00:05:56,320 --> 00:06:00,880 Speaker 1: limited government, a social contract, popular sovereigntry. But it was 91 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:05,279 Speaker 1: far from a perfect union. How so, well, let's see, 92 00:06:05,320 --> 00:06:08,120 Speaker 1: if you were an enslaved person, you were counted as 93 00:06:08,200 --> 00:06:11,800 Speaker 1: three fifths of a person, which was particularly insulting when 94 00:06:11,839 --> 00:06:16,880 Speaker 1: you think about it, because you were being counted as 95 00:06:17,040 --> 00:06:20,840 Speaker 1: a unit of power for those who owned you. That 96 00:06:21,040 --> 00:06:25,360 Speaker 1: was a major imperfection. The perpetuation of slavery, the removal 97 00:06:25,440 --> 00:06:30,680 Speaker 1: of Native people's women until n we're not granted the suffrage. 98 00:06:31,160 --> 00:06:36,880 Speaker 1: So that's an imperfection. So we defined we, meaning white men, 99 00:06:37,360 --> 00:06:43,240 Speaker 1: defined citizenship quite narrowly and largely for ourselves. So that's 100 00:06:43,279 --> 00:06:47,560 Speaker 1: the largest imperfection. And all in these other implications all 101 00:06:47,640 --> 00:06:55,919 Speaker 1: flowed from that. Why were the founding fathers so narrow minded, John, 102 00:06:56,880 --> 00:07:02,200 Speaker 1: we see them as limited, We see them as actively 103 00:07:02,360 --> 00:07:04,920 Speaker 1: standing in the way of the creation of a multi 104 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:10,160 Speaker 1: ethnic democracy in our native region. You're from Virginia, from Tennessee. 105 00:07:10,760 --> 00:07:14,800 Speaker 1: We did not have a presidential election without some form 106 00:07:14,880 --> 00:07:21,760 Speaker 1: of apartheid until nineteen sixty. But I'm careful about glibly 107 00:07:21,960 --> 00:07:25,559 Speaker 1: condemning the past. King George the Third of England said 108 00:07:25,640 --> 00:07:30,679 Speaker 1: of George Washington in seventy three, if Washington actually gives 109 00:07:30,760 --> 00:07:34,880 Speaker 1: up command of the Continental Army and retires, he will 110 00:07:34,920 --> 00:07:38,640 Speaker 1: be the greatest man in the world. Because the voluntary 111 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:43,440 Speaker 1: surrender of power to these republican lower case our institutions 112 00:07:44,080 --> 00:07:48,800 Speaker 1: was for its time quite radical. The story of the country, though, 113 00:07:48,960 --> 00:07:51,960 Speaker 1: and the reason you're doing this is it has been 114 00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:58,680 Speaker 1: an unfolding story, bloody, tragic, slow, painful and provisional, but 115 00:07:58,800 --> 00:08:03,880 Speaker 1: an unfolding story of applying the implications of that initial 116 00:08:04,120 --> 00:08:07,480 Speaker 1: declaration in seventeen seventy six that we were all created 117 00:08:07,560 --> 00:08:11,920 Speaker 1: equal and should therefore be treated equally. Was the fight 118 00:08:12,040 --> 00:08:15,040 Speaker 1: for voting rights, John, there from the very beginning, and 119 00:08:15,320 --> 00:08:19,320 Speaker 1: who were the people who were waiting in Abigail Adams 120 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:22,200 Speaker 1: wrote a letter to John Adams in seventeen seventy six 121 00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:27,400 Speaker 1: saying to her husband, remember the ladies trying to seek 122 00:08:27,600 --> 00:08:30,800 Speaker 1: more rights for women. There was an immense amount of tension. 123 00:08:31,080 --> 00:08:35,240 Speaker 1: Seneca Falls was eighty eight. The rights of black people 124 00:08:35,320 --> 00:08:39,480 Speaker 1: to vote was even more complicated because of the slave states. 125 00:08:39,880 --> 00:08:44,760 Speaker 1: That was an immensely complicated political situation. But the Fifteenth 126 00:08:44,760 --> 00:08:49,040 Speaker 1: Amendment tells you that during the reconstruction years after the 127 00:08:49,120 --> 00:08:53,920 Speaker 1: Civil War, there was a full expectation on behalf of 128 00:08:54,080 --> 00:09:00,440 Speaker 1: the national authorities that the suffrage was a fundamental element 129 00:09:00,520 --> 00:09:04,960 Speaker 1: of citizenship. When you look back at Susan B. Anthony 130 00:09:05,160 --> 00:09:08,840 Speaker 1: and Elizabeth Katie Stanton and Alice Paul and Frederick Douglas, 131 00:09:09,520 --> 00:09:12,520 Speaker 1: these generations of reformers, you know, we look at them 132 00:09:12,559 --> 00:09:15,760 Speaker 1: now and they're kind of statues and postage stamps. These 133 00:09:15,800 --> 00:09:20,120 Speaker 1: were human beings struggling trying to get just enough attention 134 00:09:20,440 --> 00:09:23,880 Speaker 1: and to convert that attention into real reform. And so 135 00:09:24,160 --> 00:09:26,199 Speaker 1: the story of the country, in many ways, is the 136 00:09:26,280 --> 00:09:32,240 Speaker 1: story of this remarkably tumultuous battle for power from generation 137 00:09:32,280 --> 00:09:36,439 Speaker 1: to generation coming up. Voting rights is about power. Voting 138 00:09:36,520 --> 00:09:39,200 Speaker 1: rights has always been, and we will always be about power. 139 00:09:39,679 --> 00:09:43,040 Speaker 1: Some of the weapons waged in America's voting wars. That's 140 00:09:43,120 --> 00:09:54,079 Speaker 1: right after this. 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Wendy Wiser 172 00:11:50,440 --> 00:11:53,280 Speaker 1: is the director of the Democracy Program at the Brennan 173 00:11:53,360 --> 00:11:57,840 Speaker 1: Center for Justice, a nonpartisan think tank focused on defending 174 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:02,000 Speaker 1: systems of justice, vote rights and elections being a big 175 00:12:02,120 --> 00:12:05,040 Speaker 1: part of that. There are a variety of tactics that 176 00:12:05,120 --> 00:12:07,600 Speaker 1: have been used, some using the arms of the state, 177 00:12:08,200 --> 00:12:14,599 Speaker 1: some using private vigilantes, but any attempt to interfere with 178 00:12:14,840 --> 00:12:17,520 Speaker 1: the ability of an eligible person to vote and to 179 00:12:17,640 --> 00:12:19,559 Speaker 1: make it hard for them to do so, or to 180 00:12:19,640 --> 00:12:23,959 Speaker 1: prevent them from doing so. Is vote suppression and is 181 00:12:24,080 --> 00:12:28,080 Speaker 1: anathema to our constitutional system into our system of government. 182 00:12:28,440 --> 00:12:32,120 Speaker 1: Voter suppression is not new. Guilded Daniels is a voting 183 00:12:32,200 --> 00:12:36,280 Speaker 1: and civil rights expert, an author of Uncounted, The Crisis 184 00:12:36,360 --> 00:12:41,120 Speaker 1: of Voter Suppression in America, which just came out this year. Historically, 185 00:12:41,520 --> 00:12:47,320 Speaker 1: we have seen literacy tests, whole texes, vouchers, fell in disaffranchisement, 186 00:12:47,679 --> 00:12:52,320 Speaker 1: voter intimidation, economic terror. When I tooked to my grandmother, 187 00:12:52,720 --> 00:12:55,360 Speaker 1: asked her, you know why didn't she vote before the 188 00:12:55,440 --> 00:12:57,800 Speaker 1: nineteen sixties, right, She was in her forties when she 189 00:12:57,880 --> 00:12:59,800 Speaker 1: voted for the first time, and she said, black people 190 00:13:00,080 --> 00:13:03,160 Speaker 1: didn't vote. In Black people didn't vote because they can 191 00:13:03,200 --> 00:13:05,840 Speaker 1: lose their land, they can lose their lives. They were 192 00:13:05,880 --> 00:13:10,320 Speaker 1: all these barriers. The thing is, these voter suppression tactics 193 00:13:10,559 --> 00:13:13,520 Speaker 1: aren't just a relic of the past. They're as current 194 00:13:13,600 --> 00:13:16,720 Speaker 1: as the phone you're probably using right now to listen 195 00:13:16,800 --> 00:13:21,200 Speaker 1: to this podcast. What has changed, says Gilda Daniels, are 196 00:13:21,320 --> 00:13:26,079 Speaker 1: what these voter suppression tactics are called. Today. We see 197 00:13:26,800 --> 00:13:32,720 Speaker 1: restrictive voter I D laws, voter purges, proof of citizenship laws, 198 00:13:32,840 --> 00:13:38,600 Speaker 1: voter deception. We still have Felion disenfranchisement, which certainly became 199 00:13:39,240 --> 00:13:43,120 Speaker 1: a source of voter suppression at the turn of the 200 00:13:43,440 --> 00:13:47,120 Speaker 1: twentieth century. We see it in the twenty one century 201 00:13:47,200 --> 00:13:49,880 Speaker 1: as well, where there are more than six point one 202 00:13:50,120 --> 00:13:53,080 Speaker 1: million people who do not have the right to vote 203 00:13:53,120 --> 00:13:59,439 Speaker 1: because of Fellon disenfranchisement. Voting rights is about power. Voting 204 00:13:59,520 --> 00:14:01,480 Speaker 1: rights is a whole aways been and will always be 205 00:14:01,559 --> 00:14:04,760 Speaker 1: about power, and to the extent their people with the power, 206 00:14:05,200 --> 00:14:07,480 Speaker 1: and they understand the power of the vote. Whether those 207 00:14:07,520 --> 00:14:09,959 Speaker 1: persons or Republicans or Democrats, what the name of the 208 00:14:10,040 --> 00:14:13,040 Speaker 1: party is doesn't matter. People who have power want to 209 00:14:13,120 --> 00:14:17,400 Speaker 1: keep it and want to keep folk from They want 210 00:14:17,400 --> 00:14:21,240 Speaker 1: to keep folk from exercising that saying power. But just 211 00:14:21,520 --> 00:14:24,040 Speaker 1: as there have always been those who try to suppress 212 00:14:24,080 --> 00:14:26,880 Speaker 1: the vote, there have been those fighting to reclaim it, 213 00:14:27,400 --> 00:14:31,280 Speaker 1: to expand that power among the people. That Wendy Weiser 214 00:14:31,360 --> 00:14:36,440 Speaker 1: says is what democracy is all about. If democracy is 215 00:14:36,520 --> 00:14:41,720 Speaker 1: a a group sport, it requires us to all participate 216 00:14:42,160 --> 00:14:45,440 Speaker 1: and defend it, and if we don't invest ourselves in it, 217 00:14:46,520 --> 00:14:50,800 Speaker 1: it won't be able to hold itself up without us. 218 00:14:51,400 --> 00:14:56,280 Speaker 1: The right to vote has never been just granted freely. 219 00:14:57,000 --> 00:15:00,040 Speaker 1: It has always been fought for, and when think it 220 00:15:00,120 --> 00:15:03,680 Speaker 1: about what most impedes access to the ballot, Wendy says, 221 00:15:03,800 --> 00:15:06,240 Speaker 1: we have to consider the very thing that grants us 222 00:15:06,360 --> 00:15:10,720 Speaker 1: that access in the first place, voter registration. The United 223 00:15:10,800 --> 00:15:15,680 Speaker 1: States does have among the lower voter participation rates among 224 00:15:15,800 --> 00:15:19,800 Speaker 1: the world's major democracies. One of the reasons actually is 225 00:15:19,840 --> 00:15:25,320 Speaker 1: our voter registration system. We actually are unique in the 226 00:15:25,480 --> 00:15:28,560 Speaker 1: world for the most part, requiring voters to take the 227 00:15:28,600 --> 00:15:31,960 Speaker 1: affirmative step of registering themselves to vote rather than the 228 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:34,400 Speaker 1: government signing them up, and then to keep their registration 229 00:15:34,520 --> 00:15:37,120 Speaker 1: up to date. There is a strong argument to be 230 00:15:37,280 --> 00:15:42,000 Speaker 1: made at voter registration itself was created as a way 231 00:15:42,120 --> 00:15:45,520 Speaker 1: of suppressing the vote. This is Charles Stewart, founder and 232 00:15:45,640 --> 00:15:49,040 Speaker 1: director of the m I T Election Lab. What if 233 00:15:49,080 --> 00:15:50,560 Speaker 1: you just all you had to do was to show 234 00:15:50,640 --> 00:15:53,600 Speaker 1: up the vote. That's a good question. Why do people 235 00:15:53,680 --> 00:15:56,360 Speaker 1: have to register to vote in the first place. It 236 00:15:56,560 --> 00:15:59,760 Speaker 1: turns out voter registration is also a relic of the 237 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:03,840 Speaker 1: ass that's still in use today. Voting has always happened 238 00:16:03,880 --> 00:16:07,600 Speaker 1: in this country, even before the revolution in the early 239 00:16:07,760 --> 00:16:11,520 Speaker 1: seventeen hundreds, Voting was a social occasion with drinking and dancing. 240 00:16:11,880 --> 00:16:14,480 Speaker 1: When it came time to vote, the colonists who were 241 00:16:14,600 --> 00:16:19,080 Speaker 1: eligible would gather together and signify their choice by standing 242 00:16:19,240 --> 00:16:23,160 Speaker 1: or saying something. But that's the thing. It was always 243 00:16:23,240 --> 00:16:27,240 Speaker 1: those who were eligible participating, which was for a long 244 00:16:27,400 --> 00:16:32,040 Speaker 1: time just white male landowners. As more and more people 245 00:16:32,200 --> 00:16:35,400 Speaker 1: came to the New World, colonists wanted to ensure the 246 00:16:35,480 --> 00:16:40,040 Speaker 1: electric continued to be just white male landowners, so they 247 00:16:40,160 --> 00:16:44,040 Speaker 1: started to make it more official. In Massachusetts, in seventeen 248 00:16:44,120 --> 00:16:48,000 Speaker 1: forty two, voters had to present physical proof of land 249 00:16:48,080 --> 00:16:53,280 Speaker 1: ownership before they could take part. By eighteen hundred, Massachusetts 250 00:16:53,400 --> 00:16:57,080 Speaker 1: made that process unofficial law, and it became the first 251 00:16:57,200 --> 00:17:01,760 Speaker 1: voter registration law in the country. Registration laws didn't really 252 00:17:01,800 --> 00:17:05,640 Speaker 1: catch on until after the Civil War, when formally enslaved 253 00:17:05,680 --> 00:17:09,919 Speaker 1: black people as well as immigrants started flooding northern states 254 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:13,320 Speaker 1: and cities. The registration laws that got enacted in the 255 00:17:13,440 --> 00:17:17,040 Speaker 1: eighteen eighties in eight nineties were almost all in the 256 00:17:17,160 --> 00:17:21,119 Speaker 1: cities were always all intended to keep immigrants from southern 257 00:17:21,200 --> 00:17:27,080 Speaker 1: Europe from voting. They're enacted by legislatures, state legislatures dominated 258 00:17:27,160 --> 00:17:30,240 Speaker 1: by rural interests and trying to keep the city vote 259 00:17:30,280 --> 00:17:35,359 Speaker 1: down by nine hundred. Registration laws spread west, south and 260 00:17:35,640 --> 00:17:39,800 Speaker 1: into rural areas, always with the intention of keeping certain 261 00:17:39,880 --> 00:17:43,480 Speaker 1: people out of the voting process. So the history of 262 00:17:43,560 --> 00:17:47,639 Speaker 1: voter registration is one of exclusion, which begs the question 263 00:17:47,920 --> 00:17:51,280 Speaker 1: in the twenty one century, why have registration at all 264 00:17:51,280 --> 00:17:56,359 Speaker 1: if you care about access to the polls? Coming up 265 00:17:57,000 --> 00:18:01,040 Speaker 1: a governor who had that very same thought, we want 266 00:18:01,160 --> 00:18:05,159 Speaker 1: people to participate. 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If you 312 00:20:55,040 --> 00:20:57,800 Speaker 1: wanted to look for a model of a state actively 313 00:20:57,920 --> 00:21:01,119 Speaker 1: trying to open access to the ballot box, look no 314 00:21:01,320 --> 00:21:06,119 Speaker 1: further than Oregon. In Oregon, we actually really believe that 315 00:21:06,240 --> 00:21:09,160 Speaker 1: your vote is your voice, and every single voice matters. 316 00:21:09,480 --> 00:21:12,200 Speaker 1: Governor Kate Brown has been leading the state since two 317 00:21:12,240 --> 00:21:16,159 Speaker 1: thousand fifteen, but her passion for voter access can be 318 00:21:16,280 --> 00:21:19,320 Speaker 1: traced back to the nineteen nineties and the beginning of 319 00:21:19,400 --> 00:21:24,399 Speaker 1: her career in public service. It actually began with my 320 00:21:24,680 --> 00:21:28,600 Speaker 1: first election to the Oregon State House, and I literally 321 00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:32,840 Speaker 1: won that election by seven votes. And I have to 322 00:21:32,920 --> 00:21:36,119 Speaker 1: tell you, over twenty years later, I have people come 323 00:21:36,200 --> 00:21:38,040 Speaker 1: up to me on the street and they now call 324 00:21:38,119 --> 00:21:41,960 Speaker 1: me Governor. Of course, heay, Governor Brown. Governor Brown, I 325 00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:44,920 Speaker 1: was your seventh vote. I was the reason that you 326 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:48,879 Speaker 1: won your race. And it's absolutely true. Everyone who voted 327 00:21:48,920 --> 00:21:52,080 Speaker 1: for me, everyone who volunteered for me, they were the 328 00:21:52,200 --> 00:21:54,800 Speaker 1: reason that I won that race. And so I am 329 00:21:54,920 --> 00:21:58,840 Speaker 1: living proof that every vote matters and that every vote 330 00:21:58,880 --> 00:22:01,359 Speaker 1: needs to be counted. And I brought I have brought 331 00:22:01,440 --> 00:22:03,440 Speaker 1: that with me every step of my career in the 332 00:22:03,560 --> 00:22:07,560 Speaker 1: legislature as Secretary of State and certainly as Oregon's governor. 333 00:22:08,280 --> 00:22:11,600 Speaker 1: And two thousand eight, Governor Brown was elected Secretary of State, 334 00:22:12,040 --> 00:22:14,520 Speaker 1: and that role she was in charge of Oregon's voting 335 00:22:14,600 --> 00:22:18,240 Speaker 1: process and was focused on removing barriers to the ballot. 336 00:22:18,880 --> 00:22:21,280 Speaker 1: Oregon was the first state in the country to be 337 00:22:21,880 --> 00:22:25,280 Speaker 1: all vote by mail. The creators of vote by Mail, 338 00:22:25,760 --> 00:22:30,760 Speaker 1: their vision was that every eligible Oregonian should be able 339 00:22:30,840 --> 00:22:33,600 Speaker 1: to have a ballot be put in their hands, that 340 00:22:34,119 --> 00:22:38,000 Speaker 1: every Oregonian should receive a ballot in the mail, and 341 00:22:38,720 --> 00:22:42,560 Speaker 1: we wanted to frankly extend that vision and make it 342 00:22:42,680 --> 00:22:47,800 Speaker 1: more accessible to register to vote. We implemented online voter registration, 343 00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:53,240 Speaker 1: and then the concept of automatic voter registration came about, 344 00:22:53,760 --> 00:22:58,040 Speaker 1: and we wanted as many people to participate as possible. 345 00:22:58,440 --> 00:23:02,120 Speaker 1: We wanted it to be an inclusive process, not an 346 00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:06,760 Speaker 1: exclusive process. So we moved forward with a proposal that 347 00:23:07,040 --> 00:23:12,720 Speaker 1: literally automatically registers every eligible Oregonian through our Department of 348 00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:16,520 Speaker 1: Motor Vehicles, and then folks who don't want to participate, 349 00:23:16,960 --> 00:23:19,959 Speaker 1: they can sign a letter and opt out. As a result, 350 00:23:20,040 --> 00:23:25,920 Speaker 1: we have over of eligible Oregonians registered. We went from 351 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:28,639 Speaker 1: being one of the lowest states in the country in 352 00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:31,720 Speaker 1: terms of people of color being registered to now the 353 00:23:31,840 --> 00:23:35,800 Speaker 1: second in the entire country. We also see that the 354 00:23:35,920 --> 00:23:40,720 Speaker 1: electorate has diversified. We have more people of color, we 355 00:23:40,880 --> 00:23:46,200 Speaker 1: have more folks from more rural communities registered, and honestly, 356 00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:49,680 Speaker 1: we just have the bash folk of Oregonians registered. And 357 00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:52,680 Speaker 1: that's a really good thing. Why is this working so 358 00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:57,119 Speaker 1: well because it's easy, I think so. I literally had 359 00:23:57,280 --> 00:24:01,680 Speaker 1: legislators asked me, it's already so easy to register to vote. 360 00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:05,000 Speaker 1: Why would we make it easier? And the answer to 361 00:24:05,119 --> 00:24:09,040 Speaker 1: that is really simple, because we can. We want people 362 00:24:09,080 --> 00:24:13,200 Speaker 1: to participate. There should not be a litmus tests for 363 00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:18,040 Speaker 1: participating in this very fundamental act of democracy, the act 364 00:24:18,080 --> 00:24:21,200 Speaker 1: of voting. Was it a struggle? How hard was it 365 00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:24,200 Speaker 1: to get get it past? Hi? You're laughing at me? 366 00:24:25,440 --> 00:24:29,119 Speaker 1: It was absolutely a struggle. I first introduced the legislation 367 00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:32,960 Speaker 1: in it crushed my heart when it failed on the 368 00:24:33,080 --> 00:24:37,200 Speaker 1: state Senate floor by literally one vote. But we worked 369 00:24:37,240 --> 00:24:40,800 Speaker 1: hard during that election cycle and picked up another Democrat 370 00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:45,960 Speaker 1: in the election cycle, so I knew as we moved 371 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:50,080 Speaker 1: into the legislative session that we would have the votes 372 00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:52,960 Speaker 1: that we needed. And then we knew that this was 373 00:24:53,040 --> 00:24:55,959 Speaker 1: a first in the country system. We knew that there 374 00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:59,080 Speaker 1: were other states likely to follow our lead, so the 375 00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:02,919 Speaker 1: implementation and was really a challenge. We created a blueprint. 376 00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:05,920 Speaker 1: We wanted to be make sure that if this was 377 00:25:06,040 --> 00:25:09,080 Speaker 1: a success, that other states could follow and I think 378 00:25:09,119 --> 00:25:12,000 Speaker 1: we've had seventeen or eighteen other states follow our lead. 379 00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:15,359 Speaker 1: I was gonna say, you have had now at least 380 00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:18,320 Speaker 1: eighteen states who have followed your lead. That must be 381 00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:22,639 Speaker 1: a pretty good feeling. It feels really really good. But 382 00:25:22,840 --> 00:25:25,800 Speaker 1: what I think is most important is that we work 383 00:25:26,119 --> 00:25:30,440 Speaker 1: throughout the entire country, frankly, to make voting as convenient 384 00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:33,800 Speaker 1: and accessible to our voters, that we make sure that 385 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:38,000 Speaker 1: it's safe. I know in two thousand, nineteen thirty eight 386 00:25:38,119 --> 00:25:41,600 Speaker 1: collected registration and turnout numbers in eight states that have 387 00:25:41,720 --> 00:25:46,160 Speaker 1: automatic voter registration and found that overall turnout was still 388 00:25:46,359 --> 00:25:50,639 Speaker 1: significantly higher for those who registered themselves. What do you 389 00:25:50,720 --> 00:25:54,040 Speaker 1: make of that, Well, I think it's really important that 390 00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:59,240 Speaker 1: we get people registered, and that automatic systems mean that 391 00:25:59,440 --> 00:26:03,360 Speaker 1: more people will participate. We know that UM in our 392 00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:08,000 Speaker 1: first election with automatic voter registration, we saw roughly forty 393 00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:14,960 Speaker 1: of these newly registered voters participate. I think it's important 394 00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:19,840 Speaker 1: that more voices participate and that we make it easier 395 00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:23,520 Speaker 1: rather than harder, for people to have their voice be heard. 396 00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:26,879 Speaker 1: I think it's as simple as that. In fact, ultimately 397 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:31,040 Speaker 1: five eight found that automatic voter registration contributed to a 398 00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:36,400 Speaker 1: boost an overall civic engagement. I think that's absolutely right, 399 00:26:36,760 --> 00:26:39,160 Speaker 1: and I think that's a good thing for our country, 400 00:26:39,560 --> 00:26:42,119 Speaker 1: and I think particularly right now with what we're seeing 401 00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:45,520 Speaker 1: on the ground with the pandemic, with the clarion call 402 00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:49,080 Speaker 1: for racial justice. I think it is so important when 403 00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:53,159 Speaker 1: the fabric of our society is fraid, it's key that 404 00:26:53,359 --> 00:26:57,680 Speaker 1: the foundation of our democracy remains strong and ensuring people 405 00:26:57,800 --> 00:27:03,840 Speaker 1: can exercise this very fundamental right is absolutely fundamental. A 406 00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:07,320 Speaker 1: lot of countries give people the day off to vote, 407 00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:10,359 Speaker 1: and they say it's a national holiday, and they do 408 00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:14,239 Speaker 1: everything they can to make it easier for people if 409 00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:16,200 Speaker 1: they do want to go to the polls, to go 410 00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:20,680 Speaker 1: to the polls. Why hasn't the United States done something 411 00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:24,640 Speaker 1: like that. I love the idea of a national holiday 412 00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:28,040 Speaker 1: for election Day. I know that we are seeing companies 413 00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:31,680 Speaker 1: across the United States of America giving their employees this 414 00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:37,080 Speaker 1: particular day off. They are encouraging their employees to be 415 00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:41,159 Speaker 1: poll workers. You're probably aware that the vast majority of 416 00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:45,880 Speaker 1: our elections holding officers and poll workers tend to be volunteers, 417 00:27:46,359 --> 00:27:49,440 Speaker 1: and they tend to be in a generation that's particularly 418 00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:55,359 Speaker 1: susceptible to COVID and so we really do need, i'll say, 419 00:27:55,760 --> 00:28:00,399 Speaker 1: other folks to engage in this critically important process. My daughter, 420 00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:02,840 Speaker 1: who is twenty four is going to be a poll worker. 421 00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:06,480 Speaker 1: That's so great. We know that if we can engage 422 00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:11,159 Speaker 1: young people, particularly those under the age of um. The 423 00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:14,119 Speaker 1: earlier we engage them, we know that we will create 424 00:28:14,240 --> 00:28:17,440 Speaker 1: lifelong voters. And I think that's so important if we 425 00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:22,000 Speaker 1: want our democracy to be successful. Oh honey, she is engaged. 426 00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:26,320 Speaker 1: I'll bet she is. I'll bet she is. Why is 427 00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:30,639 Speaker 1: voter access so critically important, not just for Oregon and 428 00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:34,200 Speaker 1: other states, but for the country at large. Well. We 429 00:28:34,280 --> 00:28:38,520 Speaker 1: are wrestling with a number of difficult issues right now. 430 00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:45,600 Speaker 1: We know that the pandemic has impacted our historically underserved 431 00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:51,400 Speaker 1: communities of color Uh and low incommunities disproportionately than others. 432 00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:55,600 Speaker 1: We are seeing wildfires erupt in the West and states 433 00:28:55,680 --> 00:29:00,880 Speaker 1: like Oregon, California, Washington, in Colorado, these devastating fires are 434 00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:05,520 Speaker 1: also impacting our communities that are on the economic edge. 435 00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:08,160 Speaker 1: And I think it's so important in this day and 436 00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:12,200 Speaker 1: age that in order to tackle these issues, that we 437 00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:15,680 Speaker 1: get as many voices to the table. And I think 438 00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:20,000 Speaker 1: that voting is the easiest way to begin that process. 439 00:29:20,520 --> 00:29:23,280 Speaker 1: We have got to open the door to make this 440 00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:28,520 Speaker 1: process more inclusive and ensure that Americans understand their right, 441 00:29:28,880 --> 00:29:32,560 Speaker 1: their fundamental right to vote. We talk about the rights 442 00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:35,880 Speaker 1: to free speech and the right to exercise our freedom 443 00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:38,520 Speaker 1: of the religion. We don't require you to sign up 444 00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:41,080 Speaker 1: for either one of those. It's just given to you 445 00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:45,560 Speaker 1: by virtue of your citizenship. The fundamental right to vote 446 00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:49,400 Speaker 1: should be the same. By virtue of your citizenship, your residency, 447 00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:52,280 Speaker 1: and your age, you should be able to access this right. 448 00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:56,920 Speaker 1: And I absolutely think that America is stronger and better 449 00:29:57,320 --> 00:30:03,400 Speaker 1: when we all participate. Once again, John met Chum, the 450 00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:07,560 Speaker 1: wider the vote has been wielded, the stronger we've become. 451 00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:11,400 Speaker 1: We became the most powerful country in the history of 452 00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:16,400 Speaker 1: the world as more people were allowed to participate. It's 453 00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:21,240 Speaker 1: just a fact. We have always grown stronger the more 454 00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:25,719 Speaker 1: widely we've opened our arms. So why doesn't everyone get 455 00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:27,760 Speaker 1: on board and make it easier to vote for the 456 00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:30,760 Speaker 1: good of the country. That's a question will continue to 457 00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:34,440 Speaker 1: explore in this series through conversations with the people who 458 00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:40,560 Speaker 1: have been and continue to fight for voting rights. Next week, 459 00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:44,600 Speaker 1: on turnout, Mississippi looked up and said, Lord, we got 460 00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:47,160 Speaker 1: all these black people, and if all these black people 461 00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:51,280 Speaker 1: are really voting, it's going to transform Mississippi. We can't 462 00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:55,680 Speaker 1: have that. If so, you saw this move to eliminate 463 00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:59,920 Speaker 1: African Americans from the electorate, how America's fight for voting 464 00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:06,840 Speaker 1: rights is wrapped up in the fight for racial equality. Hey, listeners, 465 00:31:06,920 --> 00:31:09,200 Speaker 1: before you go, I just want to remind you there's 466 00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:12,240 Speaker 1: still time to check your registration to make sure you 467 00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:14,880 Speaker 1: can vote in this election, and while you're at it, 468 00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:18,000 Speaker 1: check your parents, your friends, your cousins and ants. To 469 00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:21,800 Speaker 1: make that process easier, I'm partnering with the social justice 470 00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:25,239 Speaker 1: organization Do Something. To find out how to check your 471 00:31:25,280 --> 00:31:29,120 Speaker 1: registration or to register to vote, text Katie to three 472 00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:32,000 Speaker 1: eight three eight three. You can also go to vote 473 00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:34,200 Speaker 1: dot org to find out where and how to vote 474 00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:37,640 Speaker 1: in your state, and subscribe to my morning newsletter Wake 475 00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:42,360 Speaker 1: Up Call for the latest election information. Turnout is a 476 00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:45,680 Speaker 1: production of I Heart Media and Katie Couric Media. The 477 00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:50,200 Speaker 1: executive producers are Katie Curic and Courtney Littz, Supervising producers 478 00:31:50,280 --> 00:31:56,080 Speaker 1: Lauren Hansen, Associate producers Derek Clements, Eliza Costas and Emily Pento. 479 00:31:56,600 --> 00:32:00,960 Speaker 1: Editing by Derrek Clements and Lauren Hansen, mixing Derrick Clements. 480 00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:05,240 Speaker 1: Our researcher is Gabriel Loser and special thanks to my 481 00:32:05,520 --> 00:32:09,080 Speaker 1: right hand woman, Adriana Fasio. You can follow me in 482 00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:14,280 Speaker 1: all my election coverage at Katie Currect. Meanwhile, Yes, I'm 483 00:32:14,360 --> 00:32:17,680 Speaker 1: Katie Currect. Thanks so much for listening everyone. We'll see 484 00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:22,040 Speaker 1: you next time. I come here to urge every person 485 00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:27,000 Speaker 1: under the sound of my boss to go to the 486 00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:37,000 Speaker 1: polls on the third of November and vote. Hi. My 487 00:32:37,080 --> 00:32:39,480 Speaker 1: name is Lindsay Louis. Call Hope is here for you 488 00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:42,480 Speaker 1: with three mental health resources. Go to cal hope dot 489 00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:45,280 Speaker 1: org to chat with a live person. Call their warm 490 00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:51,520 Speaker 1: line at one eight three three Hope. Hey, Lead the 491 00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:54,960 Speaker 1: listeners take here. Last season on Lead the Lit, you 492 00:32:55,120 --> 00:32:58,400 Speaker 1: might remember I came to Hollow Falls on a mission 493 00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:02,760 Speaker 1: clearing my aunt his name and making sure justice was 494 00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:06,760 Speaker 1: finally served. But I hadn't counted on a rash of 495 00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:11,080 Speaker 1: new murders tearing apart the town. My mission put myself 496 00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:15,160 Speaker 1: and my friends in danger, though it wasn't all bad. 497 00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:18,920 Speaker 1: I'm going to be real Ify Tig, I like you, 498 00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:22,800 Speaker 1: But now all signs point to a new serial killer 499 00:33:22,880 --> 00:33:26,600 Speaker 1: in Hollow Falls. If this game is just starting, you 500 00:33:26,720 --> 00:33:31,440 Speaker 1: better believe I'm gonna win. I'm tig Torres and this 501 00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:35,240 Speaker 1: is Lethal Lit. Catch up on season one of the 502 00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:38,280 Speaker 1: hit murder mystery podcast Lethal Lit, a Tig Tara's Mystery 503 00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:40,840 Speaker 1: out now, and then tune in for all new thrills 504 00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:44,560 Speaker 1: in season two, dropping weekly starting February nine. 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