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The GOP’s decade-long war on voting rights is making it harder to hold fair elections as COVID-19 spreads
The GOP’s decade-long war on voting rights is making it harder to hold fair elections as COVID-19 spreads
In the 2016 general election a full three out of four of Americans between the age of 18 and 29 said they were interested in politics.
What we’re seeing now is what I’m calling “Jim Crow 2.0,” for want of a better term: these states doing things like voter ID laws, and poll closures, and voter roll purges.
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