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Gutting Out the Vote 0

Sasha Abramsky rounds up a list of new liberty limits from around the nation and considers the implications thereof. A snippet:

As the GOP passes ever-more expansive rules aimed at sabotaging the electoral process, democracy advocates are growing increasingly concerned that these laws will scare away not only potential voters but also critical numbers of poll workers, the vast majority of whom are citizen-volunteers, as well as salaried officials who have spent decades building up knowledge of how the often-arcane election machinery in their counties and states works.

Where I used to live, I had neighbors who regularly volunteered as poll workers. It meant 16-hour days, which they gave freely because they believed in democratic ideals and the concept of the common good, things the Republican Party appears to have abandoned.

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