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    Ensuring election integrity should not come at the cost of compromising voter access

    Larry Garber
    Avery Davis-Roberts
    June 14, 2021
    Woman voting in Austin, Texas

    Measures that increase burdens on voters should be deemed politically unacceptable unless they are absolutely essential writer Garber and Davis-Roberts.

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    Garber is an international elections expert and a member of the Carter Center's U.S. election expert team. Davis-Roberts is an associate director in the center's Democracy Program.
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    Hyperbole aside, Georgia's new rules go against global principles for election fairness

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    Gov. Brian Kemp signs legislations creating new voting restrictions in Georgia.

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    Garber and Johnson advise The Carter Center, the global human rights and democracy foundation based in Atlanta, and helped create the Election Reformers Network, international election specialists who promote voting improvements in the United States. They are among the authors of the group's September report, "Guardrails for the Guardians: Reducing Secretary of State Conflict of Interest and Building More Impartial U.S. Election Administration."
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