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  • Prof Patty
  • September 17, 2021September 17, 2021

Texas’s New Law Is The Climax Of A Record-Shattering Year For Voting Restrictions

SEP. 8, 2021, AT 6:00 AM By Nathaniel Rakich and Elena Mejía It took several months, but Texas Republicans have finally enacted their much-debated bill rolling back voting

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  • Kintsugi
  • March 16, 2021

A GOP lawmaker says the ‘quality’ of a vote matters. Critics say that’s ‘straight out of Jim Crow.’

By Timothy Bella March 13, 2021 at 12:06 p.m. EST Amid a contentious hearing over proposed restrictions on Arizona’s vote-by-mail system, a Republican state lawmaker argued that voters

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  • Prof Patty
  • November 13, 2020

The 5-Minute Fix

Some Democratic voters are nervous — and a number of Republican voters, alongside the president, are hopeful — that the results of the presidential election aren’t really the results and that

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