In the year 2000, legal dispute over the failure of Florida's voting machinery led to the selection of President George W. Bush by the US Supreme Court. Other results were a crisis of confidence in America's electoral process — which produced many changes. Exactly one year ago today -- in another presidential election -- some of those changes were called into question, and there were echoes last night. In this last week before To the Point goes from daily radio to podcast only, we look at what's happened since the program started 17 years ago. We hear about the security of voting machines, voter ID, Gerrymandering and what politicians like to call the "sacred right of every American" to cast a ballot.
US elections: Repaired… or fixed?
More
- Berman on how voter suppression threw Wisconsin to Trump
- Berman on Trump election commissioner's voter database as a ripe target for hackers
- Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law on voter intimidation, deceptive robo calls, suppressive tactics at the polls
- Norden on our election systems being at grave risk of cyberattacks
- Daley on Gillespie as being the architect of Gerrymandering in the US
- Daley's 'Ratf**ked: The True Story behind the Secret Plan to Steal America's Democracy'
Credits
Guests:
- Ari Berman - voting rights reporter for Mother Jones, author of “Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People ― and the Fight to Resist It” - @AriBerman
- Kristen Clarke - Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights under Law - @KristenClarkeJD
- Lawrence Norden - New York University Law School - @BrennanCenter
- David Daley - journalist and author - @davedaley3