Voting is medicine, Abrams says
Certain Texas Tribune Festival panels have the feel of a group therapy session. We, the Texans who consume news, are collectively terrified and appalled, and we’re coping in one of the only ways we know how: with lanyards around our necks.
The first group-wince came within five minutes of the panel on voter suppression . NPR’s Ashley Lopez, moderating the conversation with Abrams and national voting rights correspondent Ari Berman, had only to utter Attorney General Ken Paxton’s name for the crowd to recoil in tandem. Abrams, like a good therapist, pointed out that we may feel like we’re the only ones dealing with this thing, but in truth, lots of states are fighting similar battles. “We cannot isolate Ken Paxton from Brian Kemp. From the state of Florida,” she said. “What is happening in South Dakota is part of this. This is not endemic to a certain person. It is the intention of a party.”
It was a question from an Austin Community College student that finally broke the conversation away from the practical barriers placed between voters and ballots. It turned the panel’s attention to a much slippier issue: belief in democracy. “I notice a lot of cynicism from young people like me. And I worry about young people turning out.”
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