You can listen to the fourth episode of the Election Meltdown podcast (in conjunction with Dahlia Lithwick and Slate Amicus) at this link. (Episode 1 on voter suppression/voter fraud is here, Episode 2 on election administrator incompetence is here, and Episode 3 on campaign dirty tricks is here.) In this episode, Dahlia Lithwick and I speak with Professor Carol Anderson about the rhetoric surrounding elections, from Donald Trump’s call to his supporters to “watch” to make sure the election is not “stolen,” to Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams unwilling to say that her opponent Brian Kemp was the “legitimate” governor of Georgia after Kemp engaged in suppressive activities.
Tomorrow Slate Plus listeners will get to hear my interview with the ACLU’s Dale Ho about his voting rights trial against Kris Kobach in Kansas.
The finale of the Election Meltdown series will be a live show in DC on Feb. 19, with Danielle Citron, Andrew Gillum, Dale Ho, Dahlia Lithwick and me. (Tickets here.) The audio of the show will be released in next week’s podcast episode.
Episode Notes
In the fourth part of this special five-part series of Amicus, Dahlia Lithwick is joined by election law professor Rick Hasen and Professor Carol Anderson, Charles Howard Candler Professor of African American Studies at Emory University and author of One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying Our Democracy.Together, they try to sort through the rhetoric and the reality of “stolen” elections.
Rick Hasen’s new book Election Meltdown forms the basis for this special series of Amicus.
Join Slate for the Election Meltdown live show on Feb. 19 in Washington.
Podcast production by Sara Burningham.