Screening and Panel Discussion: 'Rigged: The Voter Suppression Playbook'

Description

Rigged: The Voter Suppression Playbook takes a rigorous look at voter suppression and sparks discussion on the actions needed to protect our democracy. This event is hosted by Film and Media Studies Program and Program in Racism, Immigration and Citizenship.

Shot principally during the 2016 election, Rigged tracks a systematic, decade-long effort to suppress votes at scale and reverse the growing demographic tide of new, young, non-white voters who helped elect President Barack Obama in 2008. It details a variety of voter suppression "plays," or tactics, ranging from the purging of voting rolls and passing of new, restrictive voter ID laws to gerrymandering and voter intimidation. The film also includes interviews with Republican strategists detailing how the game was played as well as interviews with leading voting rights advocates, law professors, demographers, and Democratic strategists.

A panel discussion will follow, with:

• Executive Producer Tim Smith
• Nathan Connolly, associate professor of History at Johns Hopkins; director of the Program in Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship; and author of A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida
• Stuart Schrader, lecturer of Sociology at Johns Hopkins and associate director of the Program in Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship