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Elections arent just a measure of what parties and candidates people prefer; theyre a measure of who counts in a country. Every safeguard that's put in place, well-intentioned it may be, is another thing that a voter has to deal with or another thing that an election official has to deal with. Why is the right to vote in America still a fight? Elvis trades in his jumpsuit for a jetpack when he joins a secret government spy program to help battle the dark forces that threaten the country. Then we talked about reducing those to 45. Voting is mandatory and those who do not may be fined or have to go to court. All of a sudden the possibility of inclusion began to just grow. We found that over 23,000 Wisconsin voters had their ballots rejected. In 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of Shelby County. I asked the Republican Party chair in Wisconsin to explain his thinking at the time, why they were so intent on in-person voting. Learn more about our use of cookies and information. But Will They Cast Ballots? Most estimates were that Black and Hispanic voters in Wisconsin were twice as likely as white voters not to have one of the approved forms of identification. It snatched the covers off of it. And then that's what's required for the ballot to be counted on Election Day. A FRONTLINE review found examples of threats or acute security risks to election workers in Pennsylvania, Nevada, Arizona, Michigan and Georgia. WHOSE VOTE COUNTS, EXPLAINED explores different aspects of the United States's national elections. Against this backdrop, Republicans, led by President Trump, have been relentlessly attacking absentee ballots. The series consists of three half-hour episodes: The Right to Vote, Can You Buy an Election?, and Whose Vote Counts. The first one, narrated by, writes And even when they get the right, legislators (mostly white males) create laws to make it difficult if not impossible for those marginalized populations to actually cast a vote., Lets face it: this upcoming election is unlike any other. By submitting your email, you agree to our, Whose vote counts, the Netflix series, explained, A new Supreme Court case could turn every workplace into a religious battleground. Its tempting to see them as three distinct concerns, but they're inextricably linked to a legacy of inequality and an ongoing struggle. Hank Sanders represented the defendants in one such case brought by the U.S. attorney in Alabama at the time, Jeff Sessions. You can watch all three episodes over on Netflix, launching on Monday, September 28. This series explores voter suppression, campaign spending and how the system seems to be rigged to give some groups less powers . Other states would follow Wisconsin with their own voter ID laws And then came efforts to dismantle the fundamental provisions of the Voting Rights Act. How does the system work, and can it be fixed? The documentary miniseries, produced by Vox Media and distributed by Netflix, examines the various aspects of democracy in the United States, the way our representatives are selected and the history A president winning the electoral college but not the popular vote has become increasingly common. Actually, in my district, it is not a partisan issue. Remove these ten words. The topics of these episodes have been coming to a head in recent years. Voting does matter, enormously but it makes sense that so many Americans feel that way. Subscribe toHollywood InsidersYouTube Channel, by clicking here. The series is narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, Selena Gomez, and John Legend. Whose Vote Counts, Explained Whose Vote Counts, Explained is a 2020 docuseries. 1867. When I heard Melody McCurtis say that, the drama in Wisconsin came into sharp focus. State governments used this loophole to prohibit people from voting based on felony convictions and literacy tests, as well as making voting financially inaccessible through poll taxes. You can watch all three episodes over on Netflix, launching on Monday, September 28. For an attorney who despises losing to men and an A-list actor who distrusts women, love means nothing until they're forced to date each other. Related article:The Power of Positivity: Ikorodu Bois + Chris Hemsworth + Russo Brothers + Sam Hargrave. One COVID-free safety zone. There has been some that said, "Well, why did you wait until the last minute?" All lean Democratic, with large communities of color. You'll receive access to exclusive information and early alerts about our documentaries and investigations. early on. Why is the right to vote in America still a fight? They served their time, and are free citizens just like anyone else. Is someone on your end recording the Zoom call? Whose Vote Counts, Explained: Italy: Il voto in poche parole: Japan (Japanese title) "": Mexico: El poder del voto, en pocas palabras: Poland: Wyjaniamy: Czyj gos si liczy: Spain: Las elecciones, en pocas palabras: UK: Whose Vote Counts, Explained: USA: Whose Vote Counts, Explained We talked to Hans von Spakovsky about this, and he said, "He has no idea what he's talking about. They can immediately change their voting laws and their procedures without having to come here to Washington to get approval first. Melody McCurtis and her mother, Danell Cross, founded a community organization called Metcalfe Park Bridges. I don't have the time, the resources to do any kind of comprehensive list. Additional funding is provided by the Abrams Foundation; the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; Park Foundation; the Heising-Simons Foundation; and the FRONTLINE Journalism Fund with major support from Jon and Jo Ann Hagler on behalf of the Jon L. Hagler Foundation, and additional support from Koo and Patricia Yuen. With Columbia Journalism Investigations and reporters from the USA TODAY NETWORK, New Yorkerwriter Jelani Cobb reports on allegations of voter disenfranchisement,how unfounded claims of extensive voter fraud entered the political mainstream,rhetoric and realities around mail-in ballots,and how the pandemic could impact turnout. This march will not continue. We find them through press releases from law enforcement officials, state attorney generals and others. States that were notorious for voter suppression now had to get federal approval if they wanted to change any laws regarding voting. with some people waiting five to six hours to cast their votes. Yes, it's true that the leaders of some civil rights organizations and others disagree with that, but the evidence, the facts, the turnout in elections in states that have put in ID laws show that it does not keep people out of the polls. We didn't really have a verification of, is this the person? And so when people say "the north side," that's really code for "Black folks." If you care about these issues, then use your power as a citizen and vote. You can use your certified birth certificate, a pay stub and your Social Security. They said it best in the episode: if your vote didnt matter, they wouldnt be trying to keep you from voting. The Florida law against ex-cons voting as well as Trumps inaccurate statement about voter fraud are two different ways of suppressing votes. So I think you can look at various moments in history, but to me the critical moment was the election of President Obama and the ensuing internal civil war within the Republican Party about what to do about it. On Sept. 10, he tweeted Sending out 80 MILLION BALLOTS to people who arent even asking for a Ballot is unfair and a total fraud in the making. We apparently have only, left to start taking climate change seriously, so go research which candidate does and which one doesnt. If You Need a Refresher, Here's How Recounts Work. When you vote folks in office, you have a say-so on what you want your community to be. The series consists of three half-hour episodes: "The Right to Vote," "Can You Buy an Election?," and "Whose Vote Counts." The first one, narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, analyzes voter suppression. BEN WIKLER, Chair, Democratic Party of WI: Hi, this is Ben Wikler with the Democratic Party of Wisconsin calling for David. In Metcalfe Park our medium income is $24,000. I was too afraid that what if I got sick? Republicans dont care. We were fully prepared for me to potentially have to sleep down here if I had to, because I can't afford to get sick. Whose Vote Counts, Explained - Se1 - Ep02 - Can You Buy an Election HD Watch Stream English These brave, brave people who went to the polls in Milwaukee despite the pandemic. But he ran into a roadblock with the Republican-controlled Legislature. These are the ones that Trump has a problem with. With our colleagues at Columbia Journalism Investigations and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and USA Today, we examined the results. And so the challenge really is making sure that all the clerks are aware. And we woke up the next day and I saw a sight I didn't ever imagine seeing. We continued to invest 14-, 16-, 18-hour workdays, all with the hope that that election ultimately would be postponed. JUSTIN CLARK, Dep. 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. 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Castro-Huerta, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Video Gaming Her Way into Young Voters Hearts. We are simultaneously faced with a global pandemic, climate change, systemic racism/inequality, and a lack of competent leadership in the White House. Some states even allow voters to turn their ballots in at polling places on Election Day. I tried for a couple of weeks to convince the Legislature to changing around, make it an all-mail ballot or at least push it out to a different date. None of these things will be improved by staying home and watching the world burn. The Electoral College. 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. Throughout that hundred-year history between the end of Reconstruction and the Civil Rights movement, the inability to vote is what shaped Black life. I've[laughs] I think that's not a fair statement. People on the other side of this equation have frequently said, we have an issue with voter suppression in the United States, not an issue with voter fraud. Im running for the Supreme Court to stop. If you want to register by mail, a required copy of your ID or a copy of your energy bill or a copy of your bank statement. One of these ways would be through challenging Black voters absentee ballots through accusations of fraud. Gerrymandering. Stars Arnold Schwarzenegger Carol Anderson Carol Berkin If you look at the polling, they agree with other Americans that voter ID is a common sense reform. There's no end in sight." with a few exceptions, almost every lawsuit that's been filed have been unable to show that in fact it keeps people out of the polls. But the victory belied an unsettling fact. Or requiring a witness address for an absentee ballot. The visuals from Vox are incredible and well . The Turners were facing decades in prison. You'll receive access to exclusive information and early alerts about our documentaries and investigations. The United States Postal Service lacks much-needed funding, leaving voters feeling uncertain about mailing their ballots. People were going to get sick and those people were probably going to be Black and brown people who are disproportionately impacted by the virus. On this particular issue with voter ID, yes, he was wrong. Areas like Milwaukee, where we'd been talking to anxious voters. As America chooses its next president in the midst of a historic pandemic, FRONTLINE investigates whose vote counts and whose might not. Within months, it led to the signing of the Voting Rights Act. Why are there so many inconsistencies with voting per state? Our series outlines some of the proposed solutions out there to make Americas democracy represent all its citizens better. Transcript Whose Vote Counts View film JELANI COBB, Correspondent: I'm a journalist and historian. John Lewis spoke with such passion about voter ID laws not just because he thought they were wrong, but because his life's work was under attack. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});Misrepresentation can affect legislation at a federal level. In America, some votes count more than others, and the balance of power is unequal. Campaign Manager, Trump campaign: When you radically change the way people vote, what ends up happening is you create confusion, you create chaos and you disenfranchise voters because you're not allowing them to vote in the way they traditionally would. Related article:First Presidential Debates 2020: Joe Biden VS Donald Trump VS Debates Vs Domestic Terrorism, Related article:Donald Trump Attacks Press Freedom, Cops Assault Journalists Bloody, Eugene Kiely and Rem Reider from factcheck.org stated mail ballots will be sent automatically to eligible registered voters in only nine states and the District of Columbia. If youre not aware of which one is which between Trump and Joe Biden, then youve got some work to do. He also enjoys writing about current events in the entertainment landscape, and is always looking for interesting topics to cover. My dad, who's a Democrat, he said, "Well, what's wrong with that? If youve been reading the news, you know that President Trump has denounced mail-in voting as a scam ahead of next months election. It was released on Netflix on September 28, 2020. As the legal battles worked their way through the courts, judges ruled against the Democrats' position one decision after another. BRYAN STEVENSON, Exec. Now That Barrett Is on the Supreme Court, Should Women Start Panicking? 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. Some of the rejected ballots were from one neighborhood: Metcalfe Park. With Joe Biden projected to win the state by a narrow margin, the Trump Campaign said it would seek a Wisconsin recount. Many voters are concerned about how they can safely vote and make sure their vote is counted. In fact, I think the correct assessment of this is going back to the Jimmy Carter-James Baker commission. That provision was called Section 5. At every chance he got, he was talking about voter fraud, voter fraud. 1. I mean, this, on the granular levelthere are multiple, dozens of lawsuits. But not every vote is created equal. Heading into Election Day, a promising bloc of young voters students remains unpredictable, despite high registration rates. It started off as several hundred a day, quickly transitioned to several thousand, and then got up to as many as 10,000 in a single day in a system that had really previously been designed to accommodate maybe several hundred requests in a day. She's so vibrant. She's one of the fanciest ladies in the neighborhood and all of this. Open that door! And it took many years, though, before you had a substantial amount of African Americans elected to office. We went to places in the state that were being hardest hit by the virusdensely populated urban areas: Madison, Green Bay and especially Milwaukee. Or a change in the deadline to request an absentee ballot. They didn't want people to go out and vote, but I know I needed to. Jan. 6, Two Years Later: 10 Documentaries to Watch, How American Politics Reached This Fraught Moment: 12 Documentaries to Watch Ahead of the Midterms, 'Whose Vote Counts' Wins FRONTLINEs Second Peabody Award of 2021, Taking Office in a Time of Crisis: 16 Documentaries on Key Issues Biden Inherits. If youve been reading the news, you know that President Trump has, mail-in voting as a scam ahead of next months election. Whose Vote Counts Episode aired Sep 28, 2020 25 m IMDb RATING 7.7 /10 117 YOUR RATING Rate Documentary Gerrymandering. With reporters from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and USA Today, we examined the voting, especially the absentee ballots, how they were used and counted, and the political and legal fights around them. 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. 2. like Indiana, which have had photo ID laws in place now for more than six years. Wait a minute, wait a minute. The violence was broadcast into living rooms across the country, arousing the national conscience in the same way that images of George Floyds death would 55 years later. Whose Vote Counts, Explained was released on September 28, 2020, on Netflix. Republican lawmakers almost immediately sue. The first is a formal way of not letting a certain group of people vote, and the latter is an attempt to discourage people from trusting the voting system. I was making dinner for my two kids when I learned about the United States Supreme Court case, and it was just a little while after learning about the Wisconsin state Supreme Court case. As the coronavirus upends their lives, two detectives doggedly pursue those responsible for an abduction they realize is part of a sinister pattern. That people felt that their vote was being suppressed by having to go out and potentially contract the illness by going to a polling place. Pennsylvania gave Joe Biden the 20 Electoral College. Voters can stick to the traditional way of mailing it, or they can drop it off at secure drop-off boxes in their county. 10 months ago. The memorial is informally known as the national lynching museum, and it's filled with thousands of names of Black Americans, many of them killed amid the push for voting rights. Up to that point, the Department of Justice, particularly the voting section of the Department of Justice, was focused on enforcing the Voting Rights Act. In Wisconsin, for decades considered a bastion of progressive politics, Republicans won both houses of the Legislature and a conservative Republican governor was elected. And what's your response to that? Walker took office. When filling out the ballot, read the instructions carefully. Under the banner of combating voter fraud, von Spakovsky had spent years advocating for restrictions on voting, such as laws requiring photo ID in order to register or cast a ballot, outraging many Democrats. 3. I do believe that there is an attack on our democracy right now. Wisconsin is moving forward with its election this morning. How can the system be fixed? 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The pandemic has brought unprecedented strains on American voting systems, and new opportunities for unfair play. It was not just a bureaucratic burden. In the third episode of Whose Vote Counts, Explained, leading experts discuss the effects of the electoral college and how it misrepresents the American people. But as we were making this series, and the election season heated up, we were surprised at the new dimensions they took. One of them said, its a rigged game, so dont play. While I agree that the electoral college should be discontinued, I dont think that disagreeing with it justifies somebody not voting. I thought, "Im going to have some problems, how am I going to solve them?" stated mail ballots will be sent automatically to eligible registered voters in only nine states and the District of Columbia. Well, basically they felt it was important to have the election. And then the witness signs, provides their address as well. Oops. PROF. BARRY C. BURDEN, Dir., Elections Research Ctr., UW-Madison: That law required a voter to have one of about six or seven forms of approved photo ID. Its been an especially common practice for me ever since the pandemic started, with my custom list of shows and films to watch growing larger the more time I spend inside. According to Whose Vote Counts, Explained, 18 of the 25 countries with the highest turnout rates hold elections on weekends, unlike the U.S. Belgium, Australia, Mexico and Greece consider voting to be a duty similar to jury duty. Hes a former Justice Department lawyer and an architect of the Republican position on voter fraudand a frequent speaker at events like CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference, where I met him last winter. Something went wrong. Four out of the nine justices on the court today were nominated by presidents who lost the popular vote. Here you have the governor, in the morning, to issue an order to delay the election. We do have discriminatory conduct that sometimes happens still in the voting context, and that's what the Voting Rights Act. Earlier today, I signed Executive Order 74 to suspend in-person voting for the spring election until June 9. Im celebrating social distance-wise [cheering] with my friends and my colleagues. Whose Vote Counts, Explained - Se1 - Ep01 - The Right to Vote HD Watch HD Deutsch The big state race everyone was keeping an eye on. In a two-part documentary, FRONTLINE and Forbidden Films explore how the powerful spyware Pegasus, sold to governments around the world by the Israeli company NSO Group, was used on journalists, activists, the wife and fiance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and others. And also that's the same group of people that can make and break an election. The right to vote is at the foundation of America's democracy. There's also been a social evolution that independently of voting issues has led to better dialogue between the races and more compatibility between the races. It goes back all the way to our nations infancy when voting was considered a privilege, not a right. Additional funding is provided by the Abrams Foundation; the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; Park Foundation; the Heising-Simons Foundation; and the FRONTLINE Journalism Fund with major support from Jon and Jo Ann Hagler on behalf of the Jon L. Hagler Foundation, and additional support from Koo and Patricia Yuen. I figured that if Im going to be constantly watching things, I might as well learn something in the process. 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