Reforms to voting in US elections include monumental changes in access to voting. Much of this includes the expansion of voting rights (suffrage), removing restrictions to voting based on property ownership, race, gender, and age. Yet there are other major modifications to voting access that include the times we can vote and the candidate nomination process. Today's episode covers all these topics, including some developments in voting rights expansion that you may not have heard of, the development of primaries, and the emergence of early and absentee voting.

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(0:00) Introduction to Voting Policy Reforms

(1:09) Changes to Methods of Voting

(6:42) Development of Primaries

(13:26) Expanding Voting Rights: A Chronology

(15:12) Expanding Voting Rights: Removing Property Qualifications

(18:27) Expanding Voting Rights: The 15th and 19th Amendments

(24:03) Expanding Voting Rights: More Racial Minorities Gaining Suffrage

(27:16) Expanding Voting Rights: The 1960s and 1970s

(31:07) Changes to Accessibility of Voting

(32:58) Final Thoughts and Closing