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Some states are making it harder to vote, some are making it easier – but it's too soon to say if this will affect voter turnout in 2022

  • Written by Nancy Martorano Miller, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Dayton
imageMail-in ballots for the California recall election are processed in Pomona, Calif., on Sept. 9, 2021.Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images

There’s been a good deal of crying foul about what are being called anti-democratic new state laws that make it harder to vote.

But it turns out such laws might have little impact on voter turnout and...

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