Reporter and host Cass Herrington of Blue Ridge Public Radio — NPR for Western North Carolina — interviewed the Hart Leadership Program’s Director, Professor Gunther Peck, and Associate Director, Lalita Kaligotla, about the state of our current democracy when it comes to voting rights and access. “There’s never been more attention to voting rights, especially for immigrant citizens” Peck tells Herrington.
Professor Kaligotla recalls her own experience with voting access in her home country of India. She states that many immigrants in the United States are feeling “disconnected from the fabric of our democracy, feeling like perhaps their vote doesn’t matter.”
You can read and listen to the full interview here.
For information on election issues in North Carolina and the South, Professor Gunther Peck, consults a range of online resources that you can find here.