Both Democrats and Republicans have charged that our economic system is “rigged” to benefit the wealthy, but only the GOP has advanced the destructive and conspiracist claim that the election itself is “rigged.”
Voting Rights
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What If Election Day Were a Holiday, and Everyone Was Registered?
After this dark campaign, there are several lessons that America could learn from Israel about how to run an election. Really.
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Three Reasons Why Voting Won’t Be Rigged
And what we should really worry about next
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Democrats Get Out the Vote. Republicans Suppress It.
Diverse approaches to a changing America
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The Election is Rigged After All — Against African Americans
Voting rights advocates have won a string of court battles, but state election officials have found ways to restrict early voting anyway—often at the behest of GOP leaders.
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Election Protection: Keeping Calm and Carrying On
As Trump encourages intimidation at the polls, a nationwide coalition of voting rights advocates aims to fight back.
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Trump’s Voter Fraud Fantasy
Donald Trump’s exhortations to supporters to monitor polling places in “certain areas” recycles voter fraud myths that increasingly are being rejected by scholars and federal courts.
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From a Contentious Election to a Stronger Democracy
Strengthening democracy is the key to all other reforms.
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Voting Rights: Will Court Protections Deliver?
Federal courts have overturned several state voting restrictions, but the struggle continues on the ground.
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North Carolina’s Fragile Voting Rights Victory
The Supreme Court let stand a lower court ruling that rejected voting restrictions in North Carolina only because the Court’s current 4-4 split left the justices evenly divided. The stalemate underscores how the future of voting rights hangs on the high court’s composition.
