Episode 3 - The Day I Started to Fight
The unintended consequences of voter suppression. Really. Alarming news out of Georgia made national headlines: 53,000 voter registrations were on hol...
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We don’t make it easy to vote in America. A citizen can be disenfranchised for a typo, a scrawled signature, or for a felony. Then there are the politicians who tout “voter fraud” when it’s a proven myth. Reporters Catherine Saint Louis and Sam Levine examine why we should be worried about the weakening of our democracy with 2020 on the horizon. Shut Out is a three-part podcast series produced by HuffPost.
Episode 2 - Jailed for Voting
Five years in prison for voting. That’s the time Crystal Mason will serve for unknowingly voting while on supervised release. In this episode we explo...
Episode 1 - You Flunked
We take a 1960’s literacy test, designed to keep black people from voting, and learn more about how America made it hard, and continues to make it har...
Episode 3 - The Day I Started to Fight
The unintended consequences of voter suppression. Really. Alarming news out of Georgia made national headlines: 53,000 voter registrations were on hol...
Episode 2 - Jailed for Voting
Five years in prison for voting. That’s the time Crystal Mason will serve for unknowingly voting while on supervised release. In this episode we explo...
Episode 1 - You Flunked
We take a 1960’s literacy test, designed to keep black people from voting, and learn more about how America made it hard, and continues to make it har...
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We don’t make it easy to vote in America. A citizen can be disenfranchised for a typo, a scrawled signature, or for a felony. Then there are the polit...
Shut Out Trailer
We don’t make it easy to vote in America. A citizen can be disenfranchised for a typo, a scrawled signature, or for a felony. Then there are the polit...