Politics with Paul #32: US Voting Policy Reforms Part 2 - Voting Access
Reforms to voting in US elections include monumental changes in access to voting. Much of this includes the expansion of voting rights (suffrage), removing restrictions to voting based on property ownership, race, gender, and age. Yet there are other major modifications to voting access that include the times we can vote and the candidate nomination process. Today's episode covers all these topics, including some developments in voting rights expansion that you may not have heard of, the development of primaries, and the emergence of early and absentee voting.
Key Points
- There has been considerable reform to who gets to vote in US elections over the nation's history, with extensions of voting rights to non-propertied White men, Black men, women, other racial minorities, and 18-20 year-olds.
- Today, the vast majority of elected offices in the US have primaries to determine the candidates in the general election, but the primary system started as a Progressive Era reform in the early 1900s.
- Every state allows some form of absentee voting and nearly every state allows early voting, and both ways of voting have become increasingly common in recent years.
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