.MaddowBlog: The tally of new anti-voting laws reaches unsettling new heights
A few months later, the Kentucky Republican
,"The biggest lie being told in American politics in recent weeks has been that the states are involved in a systematic effort to suppress the vote."a new report from the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law makes clear that too many state legislatures"have proposed and enacted legislation to make it harder for Americans to vote, justifying these measures with falsehoods steeped in racism about election irregularities and breaches of election security."
In all but seven states, regular legislative sessions are now over. Between January 1 and September 27, at least 19 states enacted 33 laws that make it harder for Americans to vote.... The 33 laws enacted so far in 2021 have various impacts, including but not limited to making mail voting and early voting more difficult, imposing harsher voter ID requirements, and making faulty voter purges more likely.
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