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    What if neither party can govern?

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    November 09, 2023
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    John Opdycke is the Founder and President of Open Primaries, a national advocacy organization working to enact open and nonpartisan primary elections.

    It’s tempting to finally see the selection of a new Speaker of the House and think “don’t worry, the ship has righted itself once again.” After all, the Democratic and Republican Parties governed the United States effectively for most of the 20th century. Not perfectly but effectively.

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    Broad but invisible voter suppression is taking place in Tennessee

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    Hart is a columnist for the Tennessee Lookout and the chief communications officer for Haywood County Schools. Opdycke is the president ofOpen Primaries, a national election reform organization.

    Modern voter suppression is typically understood as Jim Crow-adjacent laws designed to surgically limit the ability of people of color to cast a ballot in November: voter registration purges, restrictions on drop-off sites and early voting, voter ID laws, etc. Civil rights organizations have – properly – devoted huge time and resources to defeating these practices.

    But what about the non-surgical forms of voter suppression, efforts so broad as to be almost invisible?

    One example of “broad but invisible” voter suppression just took place in Tennessee.

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