As the midterm election approaches, we continue our coverage of issues important to American voters. On today’s episode, Patty takes up voter suppression with Carol Anderson, author of One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying our Democracy. Throughout the conversation, they cover issues like apathy among young voters, voter disillusionment, the problem with photo […]
Voter Suppression, Tony Evers, and Dark Store Tax Loopholes
Today’s episode is a three-part election edition! First, we talk voter suppression and voter access with UW–Madison law professor Robert Yablon. Then, we feature Carousel’s recent interview with gubernatorial candidate Tony Evers about listener-inspired questions around education and the economy. In the final segment, Andrew Kitslaar joins us in the studio for a brief discussion […]
How the presidential election was rigged
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, […]