Episode 91: Voter Experience

With the 2018 midterm elections approaching, why is it so hard to vote, especially for African Americans and other likely Democratic voters?

Michael says: 

I don’t have a whole lot of respect for the competency of Republicans… But man oh man, Republicans are brilliant at experience design if the experience is stopping their political opponents from voting. It’s just remarkable the amount of energy and subtle ingenuity they put into it.

Also mentioned this week: 

• Vann Newkirk, The Atlantic, Voter Suppression Is the New Old Normal
• Ashoka Mukpo, ACLU, Supreme Court Enables Mass Disenfranchisement of North Dakota’s Native Americans
• P.R. Lockhart, Vox, Georgia put 53,000 voter registrations on hold, fueling new charges of voter suppression
• Malvina Reynolds, Little Boxes
• Will Weissert, Associated Press, Texans say voting machines are changing straight-ticket votes via Kim Zetter
• John Torpey
• Mark Joseph Stern, Slate, Georgia Is Using Amateur Handwriting Analysis to Disenfranchise Minority Voters
• McKinsey Quarterly, The Business Value of Design
• Tim McKeough, Architectural Digest, With the Launch of McKinsey Design, the Consulting Group Confirms the Importance of Design to Business 
• Exhibit 4a: The value of design
• Walter Keichel III, The Lords of Strategy
• Boston debut album, cover by Paula Scher
• Lovevery baby toy subscriptions
• Photogrammar Treemap

Photograph: Marjory Collins, Showing a Negro how to vote at the polls on election day, Olney, Maryland (1942), via Photogrammar

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