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Voter Suppression And Democracy
Politics Brief
English - September 13, 2018 19:00 - 21 minutes - 19.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsDaily News News News Commentary wnyc midterm midterms election news new york nyc jersey politics Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In the state of Florida, 40 percent of black men cannot vote, and suppression strategies like voter ID laws and voting roll purges make this possible. Carol Anderson, professor of African-American studies at Emory University joined the Brian Lehrer Show to discuss this and her new book, One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy.