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    The battles over voting rights, preventing fraud and access to ballots – 5 essential reads

    Naomi Schalit
    January 14, 2022
    Jan. 6 anniversary, voting rights protest

    People concerned with voting rights gathered to commemorate the first anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol.

    Ty O'Neil/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

    Schalit is senior editor of politcs and society for The Conversation US.

    President Joe Biden chose Atlanta – the historic home of the 20th century’s battle for civil and voting rights – to make a strong argument on Jan. 11, 2021, that the Senate must ditch the filibuster and pass legislation soon to protect voting rights.

    Biden told his audience, “I will defend your right to vote and our democracy against all enemies foreign and domestic.”

    After Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential election, Trump’s false assertions of election fraud sparked Republican-dominated state legislatures to pass bills that Democrats say restrict voting rights and place election administration in the hands of rank partisans. GOP Senate leader Mitch McConnell says those charges are just “scary stories … about how democracy is at death’s door.”

    As part of our focus on how democracy works, The Conversation asked scholars to look at various aspects of voting rights. Here is a selection of their stories to provide more background to today’s consequential conflict. The strong message from all of these: The outrage generated by these laws may be out of proportion to their true impact.

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