What Voting Means To Me
A podcast about democracy
Episodes
In this much belated episode of What Voting Means to Me, we hear from David Levine, a longtime election official and international election observer who is currently serving as the director of elections and general registrar for the city of Richmond, Virginia.
David shares stories from Moldova to Maryland, from mobile voting food trucks to countering AI-driven misinformation. But what stands out most is the steady heartbeat beneath ...
Let's make voting fun again! Kim and Mara talk about ways to get people excited about the democratic process-- be it through "I voted" sticker selfies, making democracy themed art & music, or hosting election night parties. Kim talks about her frustration that voting is too often dismissed as easy. But she reminds us of this reality: if you didn't grow up in a voting-centric household, you may have not been ta...
Voting is innovation. Voting is the right to be in community. We are more than our singular votes; it is in the collective that they matter. In this episode Mara talks about these ideas and much more with Kevin Johnson, co-founder and director of Election Reformers Network (ERN), an organization dedicated to protecting elections from polarization through independent and non-partisan innovation. Kevin talks about what it's l...
In this episode, Mara encourages listeners to think about what democracy-- or rather, the absence of democracy--feels like. They ask what it means to nurture and sustain hope in an era of democratic decline.
Their guest, Pamela (Pam) Smith, the CEO and president of Verified Voting, offers answers and gentle perspective to these questions, and so much more, in her own democracy biography.
"To vote is to be a part of something...
How much does it cost to run elections in the United States? The answer is not as simple as you might think. In this episode, Mara and Zach talk about Zach's journey from being a more or less casual observer of elections at the presidential level to a becoming a full blown election nerd bringing his expertise in accounting to the world of election science. Zach talks about the mind-boggling challenge of collecting data on elect...
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