Introducing: Turnout with Katie Couric

In this new limited series, Award-winning journalist Katie Couric explores America's voting wars, from the founding of this "more perfect union" to today. What unfolds is a struggle for power — both the fight to keep it and the fight to reclaim it through the ballot. Turnout: It's about so much more than this election.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm excited to actually be able to take part in
voting for the election, the first presidential election I get
to vote on, so I'm looking forward to it. My
vote can make a big difference. Our country is in
our hands voting. We're supposed to know how this works,
right after all, it's the cornerstone of our democracy. At
the ballot box, everyone has to say. Regardless of how

(00:20):
you vote, I urge each of you to vote. In
the democracy. The right to vote is the most powerful,
non voluntary we have. All of us in America heavy
duty to vote. Vote. But the reality of how voting
works in America and who gets to do it is
not as fair or clear cut as we like to

(00:42):
tell ourselves. Long lines and confusion at polling places as
are members of the Turtle Mountain tribe were turned away
from the pools into tonight. A backlog of undelivered mail
is piling up in post offices. And I'm Katie Curic,
and this is Turnout, a podcast to exploring America's voting record.

(01:02):
As long as there's been a right to vote, there
have been ways to suppress it, and over the years
those tactics have gotten a little sneakier and harder to find,
but not impossible. So this fall we're going to talk
about it, talk about the ways voters have been kept
out of the system and how to ensure that everyone
can participate in our democracy. Turn Out launches October one.

(01:27):
Find it on the I Heart radio app, Apple podcast,
or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. Oh and
in the meantime, check your voter registration to make sure
you can vote on November three. I'd come here to
urge every person under the sound of my boss to

(01:48):
go to the polls on the third of November and
vote