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[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/26/us-election-voter-fraud-mail-in-ballots '''<nowiki/>'Just like propaganda': the three men enabling Trump's voter fraud lies The Guardian by Sam Levine and Spenser Mestel'''] 10/26/2020 | |||
[https://www.vox.com/21211880/supreme-court-chief-justice-john-roberts-voting-rights-act-election-2020 Chief Justice Roberts’s lifelong crusade against voting rights, explained VOX By Ian Millhiser Sep 18, 2020] | Now the myth of voter fraud is dominating the election. Trump has questioned the legitimacy of the vote, falsely suggesting it will be “rigged” against him and his campaign has floated using the idea of a fraudulent election as the basis for overriding the popular vote in key states, according to the Atlantic. Despite the pandemic, the president and his campaign have litigated to restrict mail-in voting and expand the use of poll watchers, citing the potential for tampering. | ||
State Republicans have followed suit. Texas’s governor, Greg Abbott, limited each county to only one place where voters could return their mail-in ballots. South Carolina Republicans successfully fought to preserve a witness requirement for absentee ballots. Alabama Republicans have pointed to the potential for fraud to justify mail-in ballot restrictions. And in Wisconsin, a conservative group is urging the state supreme court to order the swift removal of more than 130,000 people from the voter rolls, citing the need to prevent fraud. | |||
[https://www.vox.com/21211880/supreme-court-chief-justice-john-roberts-voting-rights-act-election-2020 '''Chief Justice Roberts’s lifelong crusade against voting rights, explained VOX By Ian Millhiser Sep 18, 2020'''] | |||
The House had recently passed legislation extending the Voting Rights Act of 1965 — a seminal civil rights bill that dismantled much of Jim Crow — and shoring up one of its key provisions after a 1980 Supreme Court decision had severely weakened the law. Meanwhile, a filibuster-proof majority of the Senate had co-sponsored the same bill. | The House had recently passed legislation extending the Voting Rights Act of 1965 — a seminal civil rights bill that dismantled much of Jim Crow — and shoring up one of its key provisions after a 1980 Supreme Court decision had severely weakened the law. Meanwhile, a filibuster-proof majority of the Senate had co-sponsored the same bill. | ||
