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Obstacles to voting: 6 essential reads on the challenges of election 2020

  • Written by: Catesby Holmes, International Editor and Politics Editor, The Conversation US
imageVoting is well underway in many states. Here, an early voting station in Lincoln, R.I., Oct. 13, 2020. Lane Turner/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

Plots to kidnap governors. White militias patrolling city streets. Partisan enmity that boils over into bar brawls. Disappearing ballot boxes. A hobbled mail system. Russian trolls. Oh, and a pandemic....

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