CounterSpin

CounterSpin


Steven Rosenfeld on Election Transparency, Ian Vandewalker on Small Donors

May 17, 2024

 



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Woman counting election ballots

(image: Voting Booth)


This week on CounterSpin: You and I may know that the 2020 election was not stolen from Donald Trump through various mysterious sorts of skullduggery. That does not mean that we can whistle past the fact that many people who vote do believe that. Many of those people are activated in a way that goes beyond easily ignorable segments on OAN, and has meaning for November. Steven Rosenfeld reports on transparency, among other electoral issues, for Voting Booth.  We’ll hear from him about kinds of election interference we ignore at our peril.


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Broom sweeping up piles of money

(image: Brennan Center)


Also on the show: You and I may believe that democracy means, at its core, something like “one person, one vote.” That doesn’t mean we can whistle past the fact that many voting people do not believe that. Indeed, some elite media–designated smart people have determined: “Citizens United, what? It’s folks who give ten bucks to a candidate that are really messing up the system.” We’ll explore that notion with Ian Vandewalker, senior counsel for the Elections & Government Program at the Brennan Center for Justice.


https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin240517Vandewalker.mp3

 


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