Election Series: Voter Suppression, Andrea Jones-Rooy, Ph.D. - a podcast by Missing Sock

Amanda is paying attention and feels like she knows less. 

 

Let’s just dive right in, shall we?  Amanda wants to know if our election process is fair. Why does it seem like some countries have it figured out and America is still over here trying to screw in a friggin’ lightbulb? Clearly there isn’t a way to have a one size fits all approach to a nation so large, but it seems like we don’t even have a say in choices being made at all (Electoral College, heard of it?). Why are communities of color less incentivized to vote? Is voting a right or a responsibility?  

 

This week, Amanda is joined by NYU professor and political scientist Andrea Jones-Rooy, Ph.D. to discuss voter suppression. Andrea explains the ways in which people are prevented from making decisions that would be beneficial to our future. Autonomy generally seems like a good idea, but that tends to not work as well for a team mentality. And how about this slice: people in power have incentives to make voting difficult because they don’t want to lose.  How do we get people to care about ‘D’? Andrea also shares the greatest equation of all time when discussing the personal ‘cost’ of voting. 

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