"Our whole history has been about getting more people to vote." In today’s America@250 episode, Sondra Cosgrove looks at the long arc of American democracy — from the Constitution’s original limits on voting to today’s fights over voter access. Watch America@250 on YT: PeopleVsPoliticsDoc
"If you look at the history of this country, it's a history of more and more people demanding the right to vote. The top of the ticket races are called close partisan primaries. In those, you have to be registered as a Democrat to vote in the Democratic primary or registered as a Republican to vote in the Republican primary. The original U.S. Constitution only allowed white males with property to vote for the people who would represent them in the House of Representatives. Your state legislature appointed your senator and the Electoral College picked the president. So there was a lot of illusion of democracy without democracy. This is saying have everybody be on a unified, just one ballot and don't prohibit people from voting. Our whole history has been about getting more people to vote and making sure that that right to vote is protected."
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"Our whole history has been about getting more people to vote." In today’s America@250 episode, Sondra Cosgrove looks at the long arc of American democracy — from the Constitution’s original limits on voting to today’s fights over voter access. Watch America@250 on YT: PeopleVsPoliticsDoc
