Community Forum: Who Gets to Vote?

Community Forum: Who Gets to Vote?

Three panelists in Montgomery County, VA, discuss voting rights, election integrity, and means of voter suppression, including gerrymandering, voter ID laws and targeting of groups. October 2017

Highlights

  • minute 5, learn how a decentralized and complex election system in the US discourages voting
  • minute 35.54, see evidence of an increase in competitive elections in states that draw district maps using nonpartisan commissions
  • minute 41, learn how felony disenfranchisement has affected senate and presidential elections (and discover that Virginia is in a tiny minority of states that do not restore rights once felons complete their sentences)
  • minute 46, learn how voter ID laws have disenfranchised voters minute 1:13, distinguish between voter fraud and election fraud
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