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Making it easier to vote does not threaten election integrity

  • Written by Douglas R. Hess, Assistant Professor of Political Science/Policy Studies, Grinnell College
imageAn election worker during mail-in ballot counting at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia on Nov. 6, 2020. Chris McGrath/Getty Images

As state legislators consider hundreds of bills on election policies this spring, false claims of voter fraud are being repeated as justification for proposals to claw back recent advances that have...

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