Program Description
About this event:
This program will discuss the history of Voting in the U.S., the Voting Rights Act, how it has changed over time (such as the 14th and 19th Amendments) and recent attacks on the right to vote.
David A. Bateman, Associate Professor in the Government Department as well as the Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy at Cornell University and author of Disenfranchising Democracy: Constructing the Electorate in the United States, United Kingdom, and France will lead the discussion.
Other participants will include Tompkins County Elections Commissioners Alanna Congdon and Stephen DeWitt.
A livestream of the program will be available on the TCPL YouTube Channel.
The Constitution: Rights to Know programming is a joint effort between Tompkins County Interim Historian Carrol Kammen, Steve Yale-Loehr, retired professor of immigration law at Cornell Law School and Tompkins County Public Library.
Livestreaming at TCPL is made possible in part by a grant from The Tompkins County Public Library Foundation.