Retreat From Democracy
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As laws making it harder to vote spread across the country, an additional and often unnoticed barrier comes with them: confusion.
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Voter purges have become the right’s new voter suppression tool of choice.
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Anita Earls has been the North Carolina GOP’s chief antagonist in the courtroom. Now she’s running for a seat on the state Supreme Court as a GOP threat to pack the court looms.
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This year's election could determine how people vote in Georgia for decades.
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Florida is one of four states with a constitution that permanently disenfranchises residents with felony records. This election could change that.
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A constellation of liberal groups is trying to make voting rights issues like gerrymandering and automatic voter registration the ones that get voters to the polls.
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The GOP has cried “voter fraud” for decades — and used it as justification to target minorities at the polls.
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Rebels in the post-Civil War South perfected the art of excluding voters, but it was yankees in the North who developed the script.