This article written Samuel Benson is published by Deseret News. Here is an excerpt:

One of the great American fallacies is that our democracy is invincible. On that, our confidence may be weaning into illusioned conceit. A group of over 100 political scientists recently released a timely wake-up call, aptly titled “Statement of Concern.”

“Our democracy is fundamentally at stake,” they write. “History will judge what we do at this moment.”

Their reasoning is this: The heart of any effective democracy are free and fair elections. And since states — from Arizona to Texas to Florida — are proposing “radical changes” to their electoral processes, that centerpiece of democracy is flailing. Should fair elections go, democracy will go with them.

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