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Speaker 1: urgent request to the President of the United States and
Speaker 1: every member of Congress is to give us the right
Speaker 1: to vote. The right to vote is very basics. We're
Speaker 1: going to neglect that right in there. All of our
Speaker 1: talk about freedom is the right to vote has never
Speaker 1: been just granted freely. It has always been fought for.
Speaker 1: We do not want our freedom gradually what we want
Speaker 1: to be fretting now it's been fat for her on
Speaker 1: the streets. It's been fat for This is not a
Speaker 1: partisan issue, is wrong. This is an American issue, deadly wrong.
Speaker 1: To deny any of your fellow America the right to
Speaker 1: vote in this kind because our democracy is found it
Speaker 1: or ensuring that every eligible citizen has access to the
Speaker 1: ballot box by John We've got to fight even harder
Speaker 1: for the most powerful tool that we have, which is
Speaker 1: the right to vote. This is how in America we
Speaker 1: get voting right. I'm Katie Curic and this is Turnout,
Speaker 1: a podcast exploring America's voting record, past, present, and future.
Speaker 1: Voting is a cornerstone of our democracy. We the people
Speaker 1: have a say and who governs us and what happens
Speaker 1: in our communities and in our country. But the reality
Speaker 1: of how voting works in America and who gets to
Speaker 1: do it has never been as fair or as clear
Speaker 1: cut as the story of this nation promised. In fact,
Speaker 1: the act or even attempt to vote is often described
Speaker 1: as a fight, a struggle, sometimes even a war. But
Speaker 1: how did this happen? And who has been waging this battle?
Speaker 1: Who's been fighting to make every generation's path to the
Speaker 1: ballot a little less arduous? And who among us has
Speaker 1: taken up the baton? These are the questions at the
Speaker 1: heart of this series, and the only way to start
Speaker 1: is at the beginning. For all of our imperfections, the
Speaker 1: nation was conceived in an experiment of liberty that would
Speaker 1: remove the American experience from the monarchs, the nobles, the
Speaker 1: inherited power or of the old world. And who better
Speaker 1: to begin with? How are you John all right trying
Speaker 1: to save America? You know then one of this country's
Speaker 1: leading historians and biographers, John mitchum I invited him into
Speaker 1: my zoom studio to find out what our founding tells
Speaker 1: us about the continuing war over voting, religious liberty, freedom
Speaker 1: of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of the press. These
Speaker 1: were essential liberties that the founders believed in were willing
Speaker 1: to die for. What were the hopes and dreams, John,
Speaker 1: of the founding fathers. The hope was that we would
Speaker 1: be a popular government, not necessarily a democracy, but a
Speaker 1: government that literally was based on the authority, the ultimate
Speaker 1: authority of the people. And so the work of Philadelphia
Speaker 1: in seventeen eighty seven through the ratification in seventeen was
Speaker 1: to find a way for the people to be sovereign. Comma.
Speaker 1: But and so much of America hangs on the comma.
Speaker 1: But they believed that the people could ultimately be trusted
Speaker 1: to choose their rulers. They did not believe that the
Speaker 1: people themselves could rule from day to day. And they
Speaker 1: believe that those rulers would be manifestations of the people themselves,
Speaker 1: and the people were subject to appetite and ambition, and so,
Speaker 1: as Madison said, ambition had to be made to counteract ambition,
Speaker 1: which is why you have the electoral College, you have
Speaker 1: the Senate, you have divided kinds of representation to try
Speaker 1: to find a way to achieve that most elusive of things,
Speaker 1: which was balanced. When the founding fathers set up the system,
Speaker 1: it was predicated on a lot of these ideas of
Speaker 1: limited government, a social contract, popular sovereigntry. But it was
Speaker 1: far from a perfect union. How so, well, let's see,
Speaker 1: if you were an enslaved person, you were counted as
Speaker 1: three fifths of a person, which was particularly insulting when
Speaker 1: you think about it, because you were being counted as
Speaker 1: a unit of power for those who owned you. That
Speaker 1: was a major imperfection. The perpetuation of slavery, the removal
Speaker 1: of Native people's women until n we're not granted the suffrage.
Speaker 1: So that's an imperfection. So we defined we, meaning white men,
Speaker 1: defined citizenship quite narrowly and largely for ourselves. So that's
Speaker 1: the largest imperfection. And all in these other implications all
Speaker 1: flowed from that. Why were the founding fathers so narrow minded, John,
Speaker 1: we see them as limited, We see them as actively
Speaker 1: standing in the way of the creation of a multi
Speaker 1: ethnic democracy in our native region. You're from Virginia, from Tennessee.
Speaker 1: We did not have a presidential election without some form
Speaker 1: of apartheid until nineteen sixty. But I'm careful about glibly
Speaker 1: condemning the past. King George the Third of England said
Speaker 1: of George Washington in seventy three, if Washington actually gives
Speaker 1: up command of the Continental Army and retires, he will
Speaker 1: be the greatest man in the world. Because the voluntary
Speaker 1: surrender of power to these republican lower case our institutions
Speaker 1: was for its time quite radical. The story of the country, though,
Speaker 1: and the reason you're doing this is it has been
Speaker 1: an unfolding story, bloody, tragic, slow, painful and provisional, but
Speaker 1: an unfolding story of applying the implications of that initial
Speaker 1: declaration in seventeen seventy six that we were all created
Speaker 1: equal and should therefore be treated equally. Was the fight
Speaker 1: for voting rights, John, there from the very beginning, and
Speaker 1: who were the people who were waiting in Abigail Adams
Speaker 1: wrote a letter to John Adams in seventeen seventy six
Speaker 1: saying to her husband, remember the ladies trying to seek
Speaker 1: more rights for women. There was an immense amount of tension.
Speaker 1: Seneca Falls was eighty eight. The rights of black people
Speaker 1: to vote was even more complicated because of the slave states.
Speaker 1: That was an immensely complicated political situation. But the Fifteenth
Speaker 1: Amendment tells you that during the reconstruction years after the
Speaker 1: Civil War, there was a full expectation on behalf of
Speaker 1: the national authorities that the suffrage was a fundamental element
Speaker 1: of citizenship. When you look back at Susan B. Anthony
Speaker 1: and Elizabeth Katie Stanton and Alice Paul and Frederick Douglas,
Speaker 1: these generations of reformers, you know, we look at them
Speaker 1: now and they're kind of statues and postage stamps. These
Speaker 1: were human beings struggling trying to get just enough attention
Speaker 1: and to convert that attention into real reform. And so
Speaker 1: the story of the country, in many ways, is the
Speaker 1: story of this remarkably tumultuous battle for power from generation
Speaker 1: to generation coming up. Voting rights is about power. Voting
Speaker 1: rights has always been, and we will always be about power.
Speaker 1: Some of the weapons waged in America's voting wars. That's
Speaker 1: right after this. Hi, my name is is Lindsay Louis.
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Speaker 1: your podcasts. When I'm talking about vote suppression, I'm talking
Speaker 1: about intentional or reckless steps to deny eligible voters the
Speaker 1: right to vote and their ability to vote. Wendy Wiser
Speaker 1: is the director of the Democracy Program at the Brennan
Speaker 1: Center for Justice, a nonpartisan think tank focused on defending
Speaker 1: systems of justice, vote rights and elections being a big
Speaker 1: part of that. There are a variety of tactics that
Speaker 1: have been used, some using the arms of the state,
Speaker 1: some using private vigilantes, but any attempt to interfere with
Speaker 1: the ability of an eligible person to vote and to
Speaker 1: make it hard for them to do so, or to
Speaker 1: prevent them from doing so. Is vote suppression and is
Speaker 1: anathema to our constitutional system into our system of government.
Speaker 1: Voter suppression is not new. Guilded Daniels is a voting
Speaker 1: and civil rights expert, an author of Uncounted, The Crisis
Speaker 1: of Voter Suppression in America, which just came out this year. Historically,
Speaker 1: we have seen literacy tests, whole texes, vouchers, fell in disaffranchisement,
Speaker 1: voter intimidation, economic terror. When I tooked to my grandmother,
Speaker 1: asked her, you know why didn't she vote before the
Speaker 1: nineteen sixties, right, She was in her forties when she
Speaker 1: voted for the first time, and she said, black people
Speaker 1: didn't vote. In Black people didn't vote because they can
Speaker 1: lose their land, they can lose their lives. They were
Speaker 1: all these barriers. The thing is, these voter suppression tactics
Speaker 1: aren't just a relic of the past. They're as current
Speaker 1: as the phone you're probably using right now to listen
Speaker 1: to this podcast. What has changed, says Gilda Daniels, are
Speaker 1: what these voter suppression tactics are called. Today. We see
Speaker 1: restrictive voter I D laws, voter purges, proof of citizenship laws,
Speaker 1: voter deception. We still have Felion disenfranchisement, which certainly became
Speaker 1: a source of voter suppression at the turn of the
Speaker 1: twentieth century. We see it in the twenty one century
Speaker 1: as well, where there are more than six point one
Speaker 1: million people who do not have the right to vote
Speaker 1: because of Fellon disenfranchisement. Voting rights is about power. Voting
Speaker 1: rights is a whole aways been and will always be
Speaker 1: about power, and to the extent their people with the power,
Speaker 1: and they understand the power of the vote. Whether those
Speaker 1: persons or Republicans or Democrats, what the name of the
Speaker 1: party is doesn't matter. People who have power want to
Speaker 1: keep it and want to keep folk from They want
Speaker 1: to keep folk from exercising that saying power. But just
Speaker 1: as there have always been those who try to suppress
Speaker 1: the vote, there have been those fighting to reclaim it,
Speaker 1: to expand that power among the people. That Wendy Weiser
Speaker 1: says is what democracy is all about. If democracy is
Speaker 1: a a group sport, it requires us to all participate
Speaker 1: and defend it, and if we don't invest ourselves in it,
Speaker 1: it won't be able to hold itself up without us.
Speaker 1: The right to vote has never been just granted freely.
Speaker 1: It has always been fought for, and when think it
Speaker 1: about what most impedes access to the ballot, Wendy says,
Speaker 1: we have to consider the very thing that grants us
Speaker 1: that access in the first place, voter registration. The United
Speaker 1: States does have among the lower voter participation rates among
Speaker 1: the world's major democracies. One of the reasons actually is
Speaker 1: our voter registration system. We actually are unique in the
Speaker 1: world for the most part, requiring voters to take the
Speaker 1: affirmative step of registering themselves to vote rather than the
Speaker 1: government signing them up, and then to keep their registration
Speaker 1: up to date. There is a strong argument to be
Speaker 1: made at voter registration itself was created as a way
Speaker 1: of suppressing the vote. This is Charles Stewart, founder and
Speaker 1: director of the m I T Election Lab. What if
Speaker 1: you just all you had to do was to show
Speaker 1: up the vote. That's a good question. Why do people
Speaker 1: have to register to vote in the first place. It
Speaker 1: turns out voter registration is also a relic of the
Speaker 1: ass that's still in use today. Voting has always happened
Speaker 1: in this country, even before the revolution in the early
Speaker 1: seventeen hundreds, Voting was a social occasion with drinking and dancing.
Speaker 1: When it came time to vote, the colonists who were
Speaker 1: eligible would gather together and signify their choice by standing
Speaker 1: or saying something. But that's the thing. It was always
Speaker 1: those who were eligible participating, which was for a long
Speaker 1: time just white male landowners. As more and more people
Speaker 1: came to the New World, colonists wanted to ensure the
Speaker 1: electric continued to be just white male landowners, so they
Speaker 1: started to make it more official. In Massachusetts, in seventeen
Speaker 1: forty two, voters had to present physical proof of land
Speaker 1: ownership before they could take part. By eighteen hundred, Massachusetts
Speaker 1: made that process unofficial law, and it became the first
Speaker 1: voter registration law in the country. Registration laws didn't really
Speaker 1: catch on until after the Civil War, when formally enslaved
Speaker 1: black people as well as immigrants started flooding northern states
Speaker 1: and cities. The registration laws that got enacted in the
Speaker 1: eighteen eighties in eight nineties were almost all in the
Speaker 1: cities were always all intended to keep immigrants from southern
Speaker 1: Europe from voting. They're enacted by legislatures, state legislatures dominated
Speaker 1: by rural interests and trying to keep the city vote
Speaker 1: down by nine hundred. Registration laws spread west, south and
Speaker 1: into rural areas, always with the intention of keeping certain
Speaker 1: people out of the voting process. So the history of
Speaker 1: voter registration is one of exclusion, which begs the question
Speaker 1: in the twenty one century, why have registration at all
Speaker 1: if you care about access to the polls? Coming up
Speaker 1: a governor who had that very same thought, we want
Speaker 1: people to participate. There should not be a litmus tests
Speaker 1: for participating in this very fundamental act of democracy, the
Speaker 1: act of voting, and how her state finally turned the
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Speaker 1: wanted to look for a model of a state actively
Speaker 1: trying to open access to the ballot box, look no
Speaker 1: further than Oregon. In Oregon, we actually really believe that
Speaker 1: your vote is your voice, and every single voice matters.
Speaker 1: Governor Kate Brown has been leading the state since two
Speaker 1: thousand fifteen, but her passion for voter access can be
Speaker 1: traced back to the nineteen nineties and the beginning of
Speaker 1: her career in public service. It actually began with my
Speaker 1: first election to the Oregon State House, and I literally
Speaker 1: won that election by seven votes. And I have to
Speaker 1: tell you, over twenty years later, I have people come
Speaker 1: up to me on the street and they now call
Speaker 1: me Governor. Of course, heay, Governor Brown. Governor Brown, I
Speaker 1: was your seventh vote. I was the reason that you
Speaker 1: won your race. And it's absolutely true. Everyone who voted
Speaker 1: for me, everyone who volunteered for me, they were the
Speaker 1: reason that I won that race. And so I am
Speaker 1: living proof that every vote matters and that every vote
Speaker 1: needs to be counted. And I brought I have brought
Speaker 1: that with me every step of my career in the
Speaker 1: legislature as Secretary of State and certainly as Oregon's governor.
Speaker 1: And two thousand eight, Governor Brown was elected Secretary of State,
Speaker 1: and that role she was in charge of Oregon's voting
Speaker 1: process and was focused on removing barriers to the ballot.
Speaker 1: Oregon was the first state in the country to be
Speaker 1: all vote by mail. The creators of vote by Mail,
Speaker 1: their vision was that every eligible Oregonian should be able
Speaker 1: to have a ballot be put in their hands, that
Speaker 1: every Oregonian should receive a ballot in the mail, and
Speaker 1: we wanted to frankly extend that vision and make it
Speaker 1: more accessible to register to vote. We implemented online voter registration,
Speaker 1: and then the concept of automatic voter registration came about,
Speaker 1: and we wanted as many people to participate as possible.
Speaker 1: We wanted it to be an inclusive process, not an
Speaker 1: exclusive process. So we moved forward with a proposal that
Speaker 1: literally automatically registers every eligible Oregonian through our Department of
Speaker 1: Motor Vehicles, and then folks who don't want to participate,
Speaker 1: they can sign a letter and opt out. As a result,
Speaker 1: we have over of eligible Oregonians registered. We went from
Speaker 1: being one of the lowest states in the country in
Speaker 1: terms of people of color being registered to now the
Speaker 1: second in the entire country. We also see that the
Speaker 1: electorate has diversified. We have more people of color, we
Speaker 1: have more folks from more rural communities registered, and honestly,
Speaker 1: we just have the bash folk of Oregonians registered. And
Speaker 1: that's a really good thing. Why is this working so
Speaker 1: well because it's easy, I think so. I literally had
Speaker 1: legislators asked me, it's already so easy to register to vote.
Speaker 1: Why would we make it easier? And the answer to
Speaker 1: that is really simple, because we can. We want people
Speaker 1: to participate. There should not be a litmus tests for
Speaker 1: participating in this very fundamental act of democracy, the act
Speaker 1: of voting. Was it a struggle? How hard was it
Speaker 1: to get get it past? Hi? You're laughing at me?
Speaker 1: It was absolutely a struggle. I first introduced the legislation
Speaker 1: in it crushed my heart when it failed on the
Speaker 1: state Senate floor by literally one vote. But we worked
Speaker 1: hard during that election cycle and picked up another Democrat
Speaker 1: in the election cycle, so I knew as we moved
Speaker 1: into the legislative session that we would have the votes
Speaker 1: that we needed. And then we knew that this was
Speaker 1: a first in the country system. We knew that there
Speaker 1: were other states likely to follow our lead, so the
Speaker 1: implementation and was really a challenge. We created a blueprint.
Speaker 1: We wanted to be make sure that if this was
Speaker 1: a success, that other states could follow and I think
Speaker 1: we've had seventeen or eighteen other states follow our lead.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, you have had now at least
Speaker 1: eighteen states who have followed your lead. That must be
Speaker 1: a pretty good feeling. It feels really really good. But
Speaker 1: what I think is most important is that we work
Speaker 1: throughout the entire country, frankly, to make voting as convenient
Speaker 1: and accessible to our voters, that we make sure that
Speaker 1: it's safe. I know in two thousand, nineteen thirty eight
Speaker 1: collected registration and turnout numbers in eight states that have
Speaker 1: automatic voter registration and found that overall turnout was still
Speaker 1: significantly higher for those who registered themselves. What do you
Speaker 1: make of that, Well, I think it's really important that
Speaker 1: we get people registered, and that automatic systems mean that
Speaker 1: more people will participate. We know that UM in our
Speaker 1: first election with automatic voter registration, we saw roughly forty
Speaker 1: of these newly registered voters participate. I think it's important
Speaker 1: that more voices participate and that we make it easier
Speaker 1: rather than harder, for people to have their voice be heard.
Speaker 1: I think it's as simple as that. In fact, ultimately
Speaker 1: five eight found that automatic voter registration contributed to a
Speaker 1: boost an overall civic engagement. I think that's absolutely right,
Speaker 1: and I think that's a good thing for our country,
Speaker 1: and I think particularly right now with what we're seeing
Speaker 1: on the ground with the pandemic, with the clarion call
Speaker 1: for racial justice. I think it is so important when
Speaker 1: the fabric of our society is fraid, it's key that
Speaker 1: the foundation of our democracy remains strong and ensuring people
Speaker 1: can exercise this very fundamental right is absolutely fundamental. A
Speaker 1: lot of countries give people the day off to vote,
Speaker 1: and they say it's a national holiday, and they do
Speaker 1: everything they can to make it easier for people if
Speaker 1: they do want to go to the polls, to go
Speaker 1: to the polls. Why hasn't the United States done something
Speaker 1: like that. I love the idea of a national holiday
Speaker 1: for election Day. I know that we are seeing companies
Speaker 1: across the United States of America giving their employees this
Speaker 1: particular day off. They are encouraging their employees to be
Speaker 1: poll workers. You're probably aware that the vast majority of
Speaker 1: our elections holding officers and poll workers tend to be volunteers,
Speaker 1: and they tend to be in a generation that's particularly
Speaker 1: susceptible to COVID and so we really do need, i'll say,
Speaker 1: other folks to engage in this critically important process. My daughter,
Speaker 1: who is twenty four is going to be a poll worker.
Speaker 1: That's so great. We know that if we can engage
Speaker 1: young people, particularly those under the age of um. The
Speaker 1: earlier we engage them, we know that we will create
Speaker 1: lifelong voters. And I think that's so important if we
Speaker 1: want our democracy to be successful. Oh honey, she is engaged.
Speaker 1: I'll bet she is. I'll bet she is. Why is
Speaker 1: voter access so critically important, not just for Oregon and
Speaker 1: other states, but for the country at large. Well. We
Speaker 1: are wrestling with a number of difficult issues right now.
Speaker 1: We know that the pandemic has impacted our historically underserved
Speaker 1: communities of color Uh and low incommunities disproportionately than others.
Speaker 1: We are seeing wildfires erupt in the West and states
Speaker 1: like Oregon, California, Washington, in Colorado, these devastating fires are
Speaker 1: also impacting our communities that are on the economic edge.
Speaker 1: And I think it's so important in this day and
Speaker 1: age that in order to tackle these issues, that we
Speaker 1: get as many voices to the table. And I think
Speaker 1: that voting is the easiest way to begin that process.
Speaker 1: We have got to open the door to make this
Speaker 1: process more inclusive and ensure that Americans understand their right,
Speaker 1: their fundamental right to vote. We talk about the rights
Speaker 1: to free speech and the right to exercise our freedom
Speaker 1: of the religion. We don't require you to sign up
Speaker 1: for either one of those. It's just given to you
Speaker 1: by virtue of your citizenship. The fundamental right to vote
Speaker 1: should be the same. By virtue of your citizenship, your residency,
Speaker 1: and your age, you should be able to access this right.
Speaker 1: And I absolutely think that America is stronger and better
Speaker 1: when we all participate. Once again, John met Chum, the
Speaker 1: wider the vote has been wielded, the stronger we've become.
Speaker 1: We became the most powerful country in the history of
Speaker 1: the world as more people were allowed to participate. It's
Speaker 1: just a fact. We have always grown stronger the more
Speaker 1: widely we've opened our arms. So why doesn't everyone get
Speaker 1: on board and make it easier to vote for the
Speaker 1: good of the country. That's a question will continue to
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Speaker 1: have been and continue to fight for voting rights. Next week,
Speaker 1: on turnout, Mississippi looked up and said, Lord, we got
Speaker 1: all these black people, and if all these black people
Speaker 1: are really voting, it's going to transform Mississippi. We can't
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Speaker 1: African Americans from the electorate, how America's fight for voting
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