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Erin Geiger Smith

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Erin Geiger Smith grew up in tiny Liberty, Texas and is now a journalist living in New York City. Her coverage has ranged from the Supreme Court to stationery, as well as the silence that results from choosing a bad book for book club, and A-listers selling socks in podcast ads. Her work has appeared in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, among other leading publications. Previously, she was a legal reporter at Reuters.
After the 2016 election, she had a lot of questions. Her search for answers eventually became a research project for the author Ann Patchett, and that research became the foundation of her book, Thank You for Voting, and the young readers' edition of the same title.
Erin graduated from the University of Texas, the
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“also came across many distressing facts: for instance, the number of Americans who were eligible to vote but who didn’t cast a ballot in the 2016 presidential election is greater than the number who voted for any one candidate. The country showed rousing support for President Oops, Didn’t Choose One.”
Erin Geiger Smith, Thank You for Voting: The Maddening, Enlightening, Inspiring Truth About Voting in America

“Like any other group with a low turnout rate, the more underprivileged communities can build turnout, the harder they are for politicians to ignore.”
Erin Geiger Smith, Thank You for Voting: The Maddening, Enlightening, Inspiring Truth About Voting in America

“A white woman born in 1900 would have been among the first able to vote nationwide as soon as she turned twenty-one. Many immigrants of Asian descent born that same year wouldn’t have their citizenship approved until the year they turned fifty-two. An African American born at the turn of the twentieth century and living in the South may not have cast a ballot on Election Day until she was sixty-five years old.”
Erin Geiger Smith, Thank You for Voting: The Maddening, Enlightening, Inspiring Truth About Voting in America

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