2023 Hollywood Insider News Entertainment & Culture. Last edited on 19 November 2022, at 00:44, "Whose Vote Counts, Explained review a star-endorsed exploration of a crucial topic", "Netflix's Whose Vote Counts, Explained Review: The Grim Reality of the Voting System", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Whose_Vote_Counts,_Explained&oldid=1122684721, This page was last edited on 19 November 2022, at 00:44. As one of our interviewees put it: Theres no such thing as forever in a democracy. Its just up to the American people to decide whats next. From voter suppression to disenfranchisement, see the roadblocks that stop voices from being heard. We continued to invest 14-, 16-, 18-hour workdays, all with the hope that that election ultimately would be postponed. The United States Postal Service lacks much-needed funding, leaving voters feeling uncertain about mailing their ballots. Oops. He has no idea what he's talking about. The unsolicited ballots refer to the ones sent, to registered voters in nine different states, as well as Washington DC. Netflixs recently released a docu-series made by Vox called Whose Vote Counts, Explained in late September 2020. PBS is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. JUSTIN CLARK, Dep. They didn't want people to go out and vote, but I know I needed to. "Whose Vote Counts, Explained" takes a close look at the United States' political system and attempts to get voters engaged and informed before the 2020 general election. Like a lady on here that's a senior. It would take a week for election officials to tally the ballots. He keeps of a database of alleged voter fraud cases that fuel the Republicans' claims. The U.S. Supreme Court comes in and says, "We have to have a postmark requirement. I know she's not on here. It was my impression that Jeff Sessions thought that those legal cases would stop Black folks from not only using absentee vote, but would stop Black folks from voting in the numbers that Black people were voting. How key Democratic Senate candidates would tackle Covid-19, Kamala Harriss controversial record on criminal justice, explained, Watch: Who the Electoral College really benefits, A definitive case against the Electoral College, 11 ways to fix Americas fundamentally broken democracy, To achieve racial justice, Americas democracy must be fixed, The real fix for gerrymandering is proportional representation, Watch: Why America needs automatic voter registration, How to fix Americas voter registration system so more people can vote, The Supreme Court is about to hit an undemocratic milestone. Voting is now a right regardless of economic standing, sex or race, but that has not stopped politicians from finding legal methods to decide who can vote and who cannot. Whose Vote Counts, Explained is an American documentary series that is a three-part limited series that's a part of the larger Explained franchise produced by Vox. Downloads available on all plans except Basic with ads. Seeing the White House behind a chain-link fence, the fence itself a memorial to African Americans killed by police, made me think about the connections between Wisconsin, the countrys history of disenfranchisement and the coronavirus. All of the episodes were super busy with color and transition too fast to different scenes.. It happened in 2000 in the race between Al Gore and George W. Bush, and again in 2016 when President Trump lost the popular vote by roughly 3 million votes. Kathy Bernier was elected to the State Assembly the year Gov. Folks on one side of this are constantly saying, "Oh, there's no massive voter fraud in the United States." No other justices in history besides these four were nominated by presidents who lost the popular vote. You can change your cookie preferences. The long struggle came to a head in 1965 with the march from Selma to Montgomery, which the future Congressman John Lewis helped organize. How does the system work, and can it be fixed? This was a significant factor in why he chose to write for, Every so often, I like to browse the Netflix menu and add things to my list to save for later. We have the space and time for all your stories. and his wife, Evelyn. The first episode of the series discusses voter suppression and its origins in the aftermath of slavery. At the end of the day, voting is how citizens can create change in a democracy. More and more Black Americans were registering to vote, and both parties agreed that voting should be easy. Well, voter suppression is a made-up term that's used by those who oppose very common sense measures to make sure that, one, everybody who's eligible is able to vote. 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How does the system work, and can it be fixed? The right to vote is at the foundation of America's democracy. If youre not aware of which one is which between Trump and Joe Biden, then youve got some work to do. The final margin was over 10 points, and if someone had told me before the election that we were going to win by more than 10 points, I would have told them they were absolutely crazy. Why is the right to vote in America still a fight? What exactly is at stake? A change in the number of hours we could have for early voting. [Lesson by Christina Greer, directed by Mark Phillips, narrated by Christina Greer]. Jon and Jo Ann Hagler on behalf of the Jon L. Hagler Foundation. Legislators knew at the time the law was passed that some Wisconsinites didn't have those forms of ID, they knew it was on the order of several hundred thousand people and they knew that people of color were even less likely to have those kinds of ID. See production, box office & company info, Self - Former Governor, Republican, California, Self - Voting Rights Activist, Democrat, Georgia, Self - Author, The Conservative Sensibility, Self - Professor, Nebraska College of Law, Self - Former State Senator, Republican, Nebraska, Self - Former Secretary of State, Republican, Kansas. Dir., Milwaukee Election Comm., 2012-20: I would say profound disappointment. As America chooses its next president in the midst of a historic pandemic, FRONTLINE investigates whose vote counts and whose might not. We're here to see if you need help with registering to vote. Take a look at how long the lines already are in Milwaukee of voters waiting to cast their ballots. We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from. For the rest of the country, voters have to request a mail-in ballot and give a reason as to why they cannot vote in person; in four states, the pandemic is not a valid reason to vote by mail. And those contacts help people to navigate a system that was designed to shut them out and help people to cast absentee votes. Over the coming days, Wisconsin would be skewered in the national media. It's not slowing down. I texted our election services coordinator, Mike, and said, "Hey, dude, where are you? And they started bringing all these cases to try to find these cases of voter fraud. A lawyer turned private investigator takes on a missing person case, propelling him on an unexpected and life-altering quest. States across the country have postponed their primary elections because of the coronavirus pandemic, but not Wisconsin. We are a severely poor community. For us, 80% of our voters voted by mail, 20% voted in person. I do believe that there is an attack on our democracy right now. Watch: What long voting lines in the US really mean, How the Supreme Court revived Jim Crow voter suppression tactics, Chief Justice Robertss lifelong crusade against voting rights, explained, The Supreme Court will hear a case that could destroy what remains of the Voting Rights Act, Watch: When voting rights werent for all women. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); 2022 Hollywood Insider Corp. All rights reserved. stated mail ballots will be sent automatically to eligible registered voters in only nine states and the District of Columbia. The law barred voting discrimination and originally targeted seven Southern states that had a pattern of disenfranchisement. These episodes would be helpful when discussing the Electoral College, gerrymandering, voter suppression, disenfranchisement, 3 Products $ 3.50 $ 4.50 Save $ 1.00 View Bundle I, Barack Hussein Obama, do solemnly swear. We're talking about uncharted territory tonight, gone from the Democrats to the Republicans. In all these states that we've looked at, studies have shown. BEN WIKLER, Chair, Democratic Party of WI: Hi, this is Ben Wikler with the Democratic Party of Wisconsin calling for David. Or requiring a witness address for an absentee ballot. The 15th amendment, made following the Civil War, defends peoples right to vote from race-based discrimination but said nothing about education, economic status or criminal history. When you don't want somebody to vote, you create various kinds of things. Many people spent their entire evening at a voting location wondering why it was taking so long. Areas like Milwaukee, where we'd been talking to anxious voters. Within a year of its passage, a quarter of a million African Americans had registered to vote. It was released on Netflix on September 28, 2020. Sessions denied that the case was racially motivated and insisted what the Turners did was illegal. And we woke up the next day and I saw a sight I didn't ever imagine seeing. Always having to provide proof of residence when you register to vote. How can the system be fixed? Just 170 of Kentuckys 3,700 locations will be up and running today. It required them to get federal approval for any voting law changes. Now we actually understand how much work goes into disenfranchising people. In 2010, Republicans swept the midterm elections. With our colleagues at Columbia Journalism Investigations and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and USA Today, we examined the results. Voting by mail is wrought with fraud and abuse and people don't get their ballots. Well, I cant do an interview right now because Ive got another one Ive got to go to. Do you agree with Desmond Meade, ex-felon from Florida, who argued that determining who had the right to vote was too much power in the hands of one . What did they say? 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