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Georgia's election disaster shows how bad voting in 2020 can be

  • Written by Adrienne Jones, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Morehouse College
imageGeorgia voters brought folding chairs, books, laptop computers and plenty of patience to the polls on June.Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images

As the nation mourns civil rights icon John Lewis, a congressman and lifelong advocate of voting rights, the mayhem in his home state’s most recent election serves as another egregious example of how a...

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