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How does the system work, and can it be fixed? It goes back all the way to our nation's infancy when voting was considered a privilege, not a right. Something went wrong. Just 170 of Kentuckys 3,700 locations will be up and running today. Many people in the U.S. feel that their vote will not matter because of how politicians rig elections in favor of their party. And on the ground, local election officials struggled to keep up. As a divided America prepares to vote and fears of political violence continue, these FRONTLINE documentaries show how U.S. politics reached this moment. 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. Transcript Whose Vote Counts View film JELANI COBB, Correspondent: I'm a journalist and historian. There has been some that said, "Well, why did you wait until the last minute?" Three new Explained episodes on the ways our democracy is broken. 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. There's another young man that won a basketball tournament last year. We are simultaneously faced with a global pandemic, climate change, systemic racism/inequality, and a lack of competent leadership in the White House. Is this David? Is someone on your end recording the Zoom call? That provision was called Section 5. For us, 80% of our voters voted by mail, 20% voted in person. is provided by the Jonathan Logan Family Foundation. However, issues remain Texas recently decreased the number of ballot drop-off boxes to just one per county, and in California, unofficial ballot drop-off boxes have been placed throughout the state by the Republican Party. These are the ones that Trump has a problem with. What I'm saying is that's a made-up term, OK? But Will They Cast Ballots? Dir., Metcalfe Park Community Bridges: Metcalfe Park is a neighborhood in the center of Milwaukee, right in the heart. Scott Walker led an onslaught of voting changes in the state. Whose Vote Counts, Explained (Limited Series) | Official Trailer | Netflix Netflix 25.6M subscribers Subscribe 1.2K Share 66K views 2 years ago The right to vote is at the foundation of. I looked up Angela Lang, a source of mine who is a voting rights activist in Milwaukee. Docos as important as this should be reviewed more carefully. Follow. Kansas voters sided with abortion rights in August. It all leads to the ultimate point: why does voter suppression exist in the first place? Joshua Valdez is an entertainment journalist who likes to write about the complexities of his favorite movies and TV shows, often relating them to real-world issues. Whose Vote Counts, Explained Episode 1 - Right to Vote Directions: Watch the Netflix show here and answer the questions as you go. Each week, we explore unique solutions to some of the world's biggest problems. I know what I saw during the '60s. It's a very bad system. It's considered one of the most important pieces of Civil Rights legislation ever passed, but by 5 to 4, the U.S. Supreme Court today took the teeth out of a law enacted nearly 50 years ago. How did this come to be so prominent a part of the conversation, if as you say there's been scant evidence? At every chance he got, he was talking about voter fraud, voter fraud. We do have discriminatory conduct that sometimes happens still in the voting context, and that's what the Voting Rights Act. Republican lawmakers almost immediately sue. And it took many years, though, before you had a substantial amount of African Americans elected to office. Throughout that hundred-year history between the end of Reconstruction and the Civil Rights movement, the inability to vote is what shaped Black life. Watch Whose Vote Counts, Explained Photos 7 Top cast Edit John Kasich Self - Former Governor, Republican, Ohio 3 episodes 2020 Carol Anderson Self - Author, One Person, No Vote 2 episodes 2020 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Self - U.S. Representative 2 episodes 2020 Arnold Schwarzenegger Self - Former Governor, Republican, California Messi v. Mbapp: Is Comparison Killing the Great Soccer Players? Throughout U.S. history, many have fought to extend the right to vote to all adults. Within months, it led to the signing of the Voting Rights Act. 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. The visuals from Vox are incredible and well . It does a great job of misleading the viewer with out-of-context statistics. Browse more videos . All lean Democratic, with large communities of color. But somebody that's running for mayor in that state, losing 10, 15 votes can make the difference for them. Stars Arnold Schwarzenegger Carol Anderson Carol Berkin Both of us was indicted, myself and my wife, and another friend, Spencer Hogue, were indicted on 29 counts of what is called vote fraud. like Indiana, which have had photo ID laws in place now for more than six years. Can anything change Americans minds about Donald Trump? Collapse All. I thought, "Im going to have some problems, how am I going to solve them?" Patrick Marley is one of the states preeminent political reporters, and we talked to him a lot as things were playing out. Subscribe toHollywood InsidersYouTube Channel, by clicking here. A Democratic governor and a Republican legislature were forcing people out in a pandemic, endangering public health. Every day we're getting alerts this changed or this changed. Explain how the vote by mail process works. . Sending out 80 MILLION BALLOTS to people who arent even asking for a Ballot is unfair and a total fraud in the making. Can you talk a little bit about your ideas around voter fraud and election integrity? Dir., Milwaukee Election Comm., 2012-20: I would say profound disappointment. At the end of the day, voting is how citizens can create change in a democracy. So Section 5 was a very powerful tool to keep those in power from suppressing the right to vote. The April election brought it all out. Voters can stick to the traditional way of mailing it, or they can drop it off at secure drop-off boxes in their county. One series that caught my eye was . What's being fought over? It was released on Netflix on September 28, 2020. When you don't want somebody to vote, you create various kinds of things. The state of ex-felons voting rights, explained, Watch: The man who rigged Americas election maps, A Biden presidency: The Democratic nominees policy vision, explained, Yes, Russia is interfering in the 2020 election. Google Pay. The long struggle came to a head in 1965 with the march from Selma to Montgomery, which the future Congressman John Lewis helped organize. The pandemic has brought unprecedented strains on American voting systems, and new opportunities for unfair play. It was really my job as chairman of the party to make sure that all the rules were followed, that we preserved the integrity of our vote, because changing things at the last minute, changing the laws on the fly, can lead to so many problems. The right to vote is at the foundation of America's democracy. Jon and Jo Ann Hagler on behalf of the Jon L. Hagler Foundation. Im running for the Supreme Court to stop. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});After the Supreme Court struck down a provision that required some states to get clearance before changing voting laws, some states have started finding new ways to restrict voting by closing polling places, especially in communities of color. He said that he felt like his vote didn't matter. This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. If the lies told by the Commander in Chief arent enough, Whose Vote Counts, Explained gives an in-depth examination of how important it is to vote. 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For the three episodes in this series, The Right to Vote, Can You Buy an Election? and Whose Vote Counts, we combed through piles of studies, analyzed reams of data, and spoke to leading experts whove lived these systems from the inside. People print them and then they sign them and they give them in. 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. My auntie marched with Martin Luther King. It was a financial burden, it was a practical burden and it was an unnecessary burden. What specifically did they say in response to those proposals? How can the system be fixed? 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. ANGELA LANG, Exec. That virus has now mutated and has become much, much more concerning because it is now orthodoxy within the Republican Party. ", Sanders' clients were voting rights activistsAlbert Turner, who had marched with John Lewis in Selma. It's just, the conditions that we were faced with in 1965 no longer exist. Many countries have automatic registration eligible voters are registered whenever they interact with a government agency. Hank Sanders was elected state senator in Alabama thanks to the Voting Rights Act. I felt it was important to work with the Legislature, I thought that was our best chance, and it just didn't happen politically. Im celebrating social distance-wise [cheering] with my friends and my colleagues. The Electoral College. Folks on one side of this are constantly saying, "Oh, there's no massive voter fraud in the United States." The crush of absentee ballot applications added chaos to an election that included not just the presidential primary but thousands of local races as well. One COVID-free safety zone. Open that door! We apparently have only, left to start taking climate change seriously, so go research which candidate does and which one doesnt. BEN WIKLER, Chair, Democratic Party of WI: Hi, this is Ben Wikler with the Democratic Party of Wisconsin calling for David. Now we actually understand how much work goes into disenfranchising people. I don't think there is a clerk in the state of Wisconsin that didn't see an entire shift in how we conduct elections on April 7. To learn more or opt-out, read our Cookie Policy. 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. You know, I was not, but I had a absentee ballot. 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. I've also worked with the election commission on a number of issues that we bring forward with election fraud. None of these things will be improved by staying home and watching the world burn. 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. Netflixs recently released a docu-series made by Vox called Whose Vote Counts, Explained in late September 2020. But second, that their vote isn't diluted or stolen through administrative error or fraud. The right to vote is precious, almost sacred. 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. Walker took office. 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Castro-Huerta, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Video Gaming Her Way into Young Voters Hearts. Every 10 years after the census data is collected, states redraw district lines to reflect changes in demographics. Trump and Others Disagree. Rather than gossip, he focuses on how events in the entertainment world reflect on society at large. He's never had any actions, never done anything in the area of trying to investigate or go after election fraud." Albert, you can see thats him right there. Kathy Bernier was elected to the State Assembly the year Gov. In all these states that we've looked at, studies have shown. And I don't claim that there is massive voter fraud in the United States. Three of those states (Colorado, Oregon, and Washington) have done the same thing in past elections, and two others (California and Utah) have done something similar.. For April 7, a lot of people was not able to vote, so thats why we're trying to avoid this and we're not trying to have April 7 happen again. In fact, I think the correct assessment of this is going back to the Jimmy Carter-James Baker commission. Every so often, I like to browse the Netflix menu and add things to my list to save for later. The right to vote is at the foundation of America's democracy. PBS is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. Browse more videos. As we traveled the state, we met other local officials who had similar concerns about going through with voting. I think people's concerns about contracting illnesses are definitely valid. With the election underway, I interviewed both candidates. People like Mr. Spakovsky, he played a role in advocating within the conservative movement or the Republican Party. Explore a selection of FRONTLINE's reporting related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. 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. A change in the number of hours we could have for early voting. Always having to provide proof of residence when you register to vote. The series criticizes the outdated electoral college, explaining how the popular vote would be a fairer method to use in elections. Why is the right to vote in America still a fight? Dir., Metcalfe Park Community Bridges: I hate the thought of telling them that they didn't get counted. In Whose Vote Counts, Explainedseries, fears about the voting process being rigged by powerful donors and corporations, gerrymandering, the Electoral College, voter suppression, fraud at. Running for office is expensive, but deep pockets alone can't secure a win. The Turners were facing decades in prison. 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. Gerrymandering. On this particular issue with voter ID, yes, he was wrong. I figured that if Im going to be constantly watching things, I might as well learn something in the process. You can use your certified birth certificate, a pay stub and your Social Security. And it was just not justified by the facts. With our colleagues at Columbia Journalism Investigations and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and USA Today, we examined the results. What did they say? Against this backdrop, Republicans, led by President Trump, have been relentlessly attacking absentee ballots. He also enjoys writing about current events in the entertainment landscape, and is always looking for interesting topics to cover. They didn't want people to go out and vote, but I know I needed to. It premiered in the lead up to the 2020 presidential election and is a three-episode spin-off of Explained, a documentary series produced by Vox.The first episode, narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, explains the history of the right to vote in the U.S..The second episode, narrated by Selena Gomez . If the person is registered to vote, why is it unfair to send them a ballot? The violence was combined with other thingspoll taxes, literacy tests, grandfather clausesto prevent Black people from voting in the Jim Crow South. America is the world's oldest democracy, founded on the radical idea that governments "derive their just powers from the consent . It's an African American community. Sessions denied that the case was racially motivated and insisted what the Turners did was illegal. Wisconsin is the only state stupid enough to have an election April 7. Many of the same kinds of problems showed up in other states that held elections in the months that followed. One of them was a closely watched contest for a seat on the state Supreme Court. All Rights Reserved. As the country has become more divided, fraud and voter suppression have become part of each party's get-out-the-vote mechanism and inspiration and motivation to get its voters out. Well, the most important thing for you to understand is it's just a sampling of cases, OK? I'm not going to feed into what they want us to do, which is not vote. There are cases of voter fraud here and there, but it doesn't happen in the numbers necessary to show that there's some sort of great conspiracy out there to steal elections through voter fraud. I heard the expression of a present-day reality and a historical sentiment. 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. 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. . Leonardo DiCaprio, Selena Gomez and John Legend lend their voices to this incisive, informative deep dive into U.S. voting. Some states have created drop-off boxes to restore faith in the system. In the electoral college system, the candidate with a majority of votes in a state will receive all of the states electoral votes. I asked the Republican Party chair in Wisconsin to explain his thinking at the time, why they were so intent on in-person voting. JELANI COBB: I've been studying American elections for years, but I've never seen anything. Web Site Copyright 1995-2023 WGBH Educational Foundation. stated mail ballots will be sent automatically to eligible registered voters in only nine states and the District of Columbia. Then we talked about reducing those to 45. The law barred voting discrimination and originally targeted seven Southern states that had a pattern of disenfranchisement. There has been for some number of years a virus in the Republican Party about wild claims of voter fraud and the need for suppressive laws. Wait a minute, wait a minute. In Metcalfe Park our medium income is $24,000. As a DC resident, I was sent a ballot without formally requesting it, and I didnt think it was unfair. What they would do here would be a harbinger for the coming presidential election. Since then, the process has become much more inclusive, but still flawed and unfair. Our volunteers reached out millions of times with text messages, with phone calls, with posts on social media, reaching out to people that they knew in their own lives. Whose Vote Counts, Explained gives viewers important information about the history of voting in America and modern-day struggles with the ballot. Here's what could come next. Why is it a scam all of a sudden if several states have used mail-in voting before? Wisconsin Recount Targets 2 Democratic Strongholds, Home to Black and Hispanic Voters, Threats to Election Officials Piled Up as President Trump Refused to Concede, As Biden Clinches Pennsylvania, Securing a Presidential Win, the Trump Campaign Promises More Litigation, Election Commission 'Not Aware of Any Irregularities' as Trump Campaign Calls for Wisconsin Recount. All kinds of systems unique to the United States keep voters from the polls, tip elections in favor of moneyed interests, and give some votes a lot more power than others. Claire Woodall-Vogg was second in command at the Milwaukee Election Commission when the absentee ballot requests started coming in. With COVID-19 cases rising throughout Wisconsin, thats exactly what Melody McCurtis and her mother have been doing. 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. There's no end in sight." Take a look at how long the lines already are in Milwaukee of voters waiting to cast their ballots. Thats about 44 million ballots not 80 million and they will be going to Republicans as well as Democrats and independents. So there we go. Jon and Jo Ann Hagler on behalf of the Jon L. Hagler Foundation. 1. Report. We have seen a lot of changes to election law over the past 10 years. All of the episodes were super busy with color and transition too fast to different scenes.. BRYAN STEVENSON, Exec. None of these things will be improved by staying home and watching the world burn. Do Consumers or Corporations Impact Climate Change More? 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. Discover how your individual vote contributes to the popular vote and your state's electoral vote in different ways--and see how votes are counted on both state and national levels. Learning about the different ways politicians suppress voting could leave viewers discouraged, but knowing how far we have come could also be empowering. We clashed over the competing studies and arguments around all of this. It was not just a bureaucratic burden. And then the witness signs, provides their address as well. STEPHEN STIRLING, Columbia Journalism Investigations: Sure. She was drawing a line straight back to the post-Civil War era, when African Americans risked their lives for the right to vote. But the idea that absentee ballots were susceptible to widespread fraud would live on. New mail ballot rules, extensive publicity over how to vote correctly by mail and broadened opportunities to fix minor errors on a ballot before it was discarded worked to limit wide-scale absentee ballot rejections. But like the Voting Rights Act itself, a backlash followed. Everything I could think of, and I started ordering it. You'll receive access to exclusive information and early alerts about our documentaries and investigations. Funding for FRONTLINE is provided through the support of PBS viewers and by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Voters who were locked out of the polls pounded on doors. Millions turn to Vox to educate themselves, their family, and their friends about whats happening in the world around them, and to learn about things that spark their curiosity. 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. Mail-in voting could undo the gains. Our goal for today is going to be getting people registered to vote, and then also having people request their absentee ballots for. 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. Or is this just an attempt to discourage voting and undermine our democracy? Today's decision apparently clears the way for several high-profile laws to take effect, including stricter voter ID requirements, in Alabama, Mississippi and Texas. If you care about these issues, then use your power as a citizen and vote. Dir., Black Leaders Organizing for Communities: Milwaukee is incredibly segregated. The violence that takes place, the trauma that takes place, the lynching that takes place, the mass migration of Black people from the Deep South to the North and the West that takes place, which will also have political implications, it's all a result of this violent opposition to allowing Black people to vote. 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. By 1985, that number would grow to nearly 4,000. A lot of the litigation we're seeing in 2020 is are mail-in ballots going to be rejected for technical reasons or are we going to enfranchise voters? You almost have to be an attorney in order to understand how to register and vote successfully in Wisconsin. Good morning, folks, and thanks for joining us on this Monday, April 6. Limited Time Offer FREE Subscription toHollywood Insider Click here to read more onHollywood Insidersvision, values and mission statement here Media has the responsibility to better our world Hollywood Insiderfully focuses on substance and meaningful entertainment, against gossip and scandal, by combining entertainment, education, and philanthropy. Unfortunately it's biased. Thats about 44 million ballots not 80 million and they will be going to Republicans as well as Democrats and independents. In places like Montgomery, Alabama, home of the National Memorial for Peace and Justice. that's what the Voting Rights Act was intended to stop, and it does. But not every vote is created equal. We're going door to door. My campaign manager called and he said, "If you're in fleece and jeans," which is what I was in, "You need to put something nicer on because you're about to go on TV, and you're going to be the next justice on the Wisconsin state Supreme Court.". His ultimate goal is to help the reader learn something new. Here's how recounts work. Downloads available on all plans except Basic with ads. Half a dozen changes after the Shelby decision. Republicans dont care. Most of the bills that I've worked on have been making sure that dates and times and processes and procedures are in place. At the end of the day, when you look at the problems, they're in the large, urban areas. Why are there so many inconsistencies with voting per state? I'm not seeing it right now.. Videos Whose Vote Counts, Explained Trailer: Whose Vote Counts, Explained Episodes Whose Vote Counts, Explained Limited Series Release year: 2020 The right to vote is at the foundation of America's democracy. I just couldn't sleep thinking about how fast the requests were coming in, and ever since then, nothing has been normal. Or is this just an attempt to discourage voting and undermine our democracy? Photo: Whose Vote Counts Explained/Netflix. 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