Over 1 million votes were lost in the 2016 presidential election — not physically lost, but voters who did not vote due to new voter registration laws. Journalist Ari Berman’s latest article in Mother Jones’ Magazine “Rigged: How Voter Suppression Threw Wisconsin to Trump” talks about how confusion, misinformation, and purposeful inconvenience led to fewer […]
Pledge Edition: Michael Waldman and “The Fight to Vote”
Today Carousel Bayrd talks with Michael Waldman, president of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU and author of “The Fight to Vote.” His new book traces the history of voter rights and suppression in the US. Michael Waldman is a constitutional lawyer and writer, and is an expert on the presidency and American democracy, […]