The New State Laws Aren't Going to Have a Significant Effect on Turnout

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There's very little data that shows that if you restrict the number of days of early voting, it's going to benefit one party or the other. And reforms would include making explicitly clear that the vice president doesn't get to do the countingittat like that should be a major focus. It was powerful politics because it connected two old and deep and terrible parts of our history,. A in which black americans and others were kept from voting by poll taxes and literacy tests., she says.

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