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Republican Efforts to Restrict Voting Risk Backfiring on Party

February 16, 2021 by DC Editors Leave a Comment

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Republican Efforts to Restrict Voting Risk Backfiring on Party
This article is from Bloomberg by Ryan Teague Beckwith:

Republican lawmakers in battleground states are rushing to enact stricter voting laws that Democrats worry could dampen Black and Hispanic turnout, but the moves could end up backfiring because of the changing face of the GOP coalition.

The flurry of legislation includes attempts to impose voter ID requirements and roll back pandemic-related expansion to mail-in access, steps that may inadvertently limit the participation of many of the older, rural and blue-collar voters that Republicans now depend on.

State legislatures across the country are considering more than a hundred bills that would increase voter ID requirements, tighten no-excuse vote-by-mail, and ban ballot drop boxes, among other changes.

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Filed Under: Democracy in America Tagged With: Latino Voting Rights, Minority Voting Rights, Republicans, Voter Access, Voter Suppression, Voting Rights Act

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