Moyers & Company. Suppressing the Vote
Description
The fight against voter fraud is a solution in search of a problem - these days, documented instances of voter fraud are virtually nonexistent. Nonetheless, since the 2010 midterm elections, ten states have passed laws requiring government-issued photo IDs to vote, identification that for many is too expensive or otherwise difficult to obtain. In this edition of Moyers & Company, Bill Moyers talks to Keesha Gaskins and Michael Waldman of the Brennan Center for Justice about new voter ID and other election laws that keep the young, elderly, minorities, and the poor from exercising one of the most fundamental American rights. "When these votes come under attack by this level of partisan gamesmanship, it's completely inappropriate and antithetical to our history," Gaskins tells Moyers. "This is a very real political issue, but beyond that, this is a real issue of real Americans being able to access and be self-determinative in how we're governed.
Runtime
20 min
Subjects
Genre
Date of Publication
[2013], c2012
Database
Films on Demand
Direct Link
Similar Films
Great Speeches. Volume 2
Resurrecting Party Loyalty. James MacGregor Burns
We the people 2.0
A President Speaks
Great Speeches. Volume 17
Moyers & Company. The Long Assault on Voting Rights
Can we govern? Pt. 1
The Religious right
Amendment 19. Women's right to vote
Amendment 17. Elections of U.S. Senators
America's leading dissenter. Noam Chomsky
Made in Chicago. Making of Barack Obama
Prospects of mankind with Eleanor Roosevelt. Neglected neighbors. Latin America
The Hispanic American Voter
Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn