{"id":4999,"date":"2022-03-23T10:29:53","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T14:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/osh\/calendar\/book-talk-100-democracy-the-case-for-universal-voting\/"},"modified":"2022-05-04T15:33:57","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T19:33:57","slug":"book-talk-100-democracy-the-case-for-universal-voting","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/osh\/calendar\/book-talk-100-democracy-the-case-for-universal-voting\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Talk: 100% Democracy: The Case for Universal Voting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s headlines are filled with arguments over restrictions on the right to vote and attempts to expand it. Miles Rapoport, formerly CT&#8217;s Secretary of State and E.J. Dionne, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institute, advocate for making a commitment to a \u2018100% Democracy\u2019, an election process where every citizen has the right to vote and full opportunities to do so\u2014but also the duty to vote, a requirement to participate in our national choices.<br \/>Join Rapoport and Dionne (who will be joining us virtually) for an in-person discussion about their new book, 100% Democracy: The Case for Universal Voting. The program will be moderated by CT Secretary of the State, Denise Merrill and kicks off Book Talks, a new program series at Connecticut\u2019s Old State House.<br \/>The U.S. lags behind other democracies, with only 66.8% of eligible voters participating in the record-turnout election of 2020 while twenty-six countries around the world require participation in elections. Australia, for instance, has required citizens to cast a ballot since 1924 and had over 90% voter turnout in their last major election. Rapoport and Dionne ask: if Americans must pay taxes and serve on juries, why not ask\u2014or require\u2014every American to vote? Is it time for the United States to take a major leap forward and recognize voting as both a fundamental civil right and a solemn civic duty?<br \/>The program will be followed by a book-signing and light refreshments. Program co-sponsored by Everyday Democracy.&nbsp; Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/100-democracy-the-case-for-universal-voting-tickets-309883027477\">here <\/a>to register<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s headlines are filled with arguments over restrictions on the right to vote and attempts to expand it. Miles Rapoport, formerly CT&#8217;s Secretary of State and E.J. Dionne, a senior [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[],"class_list":["post-4999","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry"],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Connecticut&#039;s Old State House","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/osh","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/osh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/4999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/osh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/osh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/osh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/osh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/4999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/osh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/osh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4999"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/osh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=4999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}