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This series examines the systemic ways that voting rights are denied to so many Americans
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About this content- The reason it failed is simple: 50 Republicans didn’t support the proposals and two Democrats opposed changing the filibuster
- Sweeping protections for voters, already passed by House and backed by Biden, fail to clear 60-vote procedural hurdle
- Florida governor wants lawmakers to allocate nearly $6m for Office of Election Crime and Security
Reporting
- GOP claims without evidence Dominion voting machines cannot be trusted, delaying results in rural Otero county
- Jim Marchant has said that he ran for secretary of state at the urging of Juan O Savin, a prominent QAnon influencer
- Legalized abortion in some form is widely supported, but gerrymandered districts allow politicians to push extreme measures through
- A court in Texas must reconsider its decision to sentence Mason to five years for a voting error – how does she feel?
- Blow to Ron DeSantis as judge says new congressional districts made it harder for Black voters to elect their preferred candidates
- Crystal Mason was sentenced to five years in prison for casting a provisional ballot in the 2016 election
Features
- Voter suppression – from strict ID laws to closing polling places to purging voter rolls – is deliberately making it hard to exercise the democratic franchise
- While some states have enacted policies that make it easier to cast a ballot, many have gone in the opposite direction
- Florida voters overwhelmingly supported restoring rights for those with felony convictions. But tens of thousands of people remain disenfranchised
Opinion
- The motivations behind today’s efforts to overturn elections and remove black elected officials are not very different than Reconstruction-era motivations
- Despite the tactics of voter suppression working against them, black people are one of the most stable voting blocs in the US
- The House passed a bill that would restore the 1965 act to its full strength – and the US needs reform to make the 2020 election fair for all
- None of the four top Democratic candidates poll consistently above 30% – ranked-choice voting, however, can determine who people actually support
- Given what’s at stake next year, the effort to prevent people voting will be fierce. We’ve been here before – and we can stop it, writes Guardian columnist Carol Anderson
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