Curiosity Unbounded, Episode 11: Get out the vote

Ariel White is an associate professor of Political Science at MIT where she studies voting and voting rights. Her recent work investigates how potential voters react to being affected by punitive government policies, such as incarceration, and how people can make their way back onto the voting registries after these experiences. In this episode, Ariel speaks with President Kornbluth about what is actually known immediately following an election, the challenges of exit polls, and what efforts work in getting people to vote.

Show notes and transcript: https://news.mit.edu/podcast/podcast-curiosity-unbounded-episode-11-get-out-vote

The Curiosity Unbounded podcast brings you behind the scenes at MIT through conversations between MIT President Sally Kornbluth and the people working in its labs and in the field. Along the way, Sally and her guests discuss pressing issues, as well as what inspires the people running at the world’s toughest challenges at one of the most innovative institutions on the planet.

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