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×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisement“So far this year, Pennsylvania lawmakers have introduced 14 pieces of legislation meant to limit voting rights, more than in any other state.”AdvertisementAdvertisementBack in state capitals like Harrisburg, those conspiracy theories are now driving efforts to erode voting rights and curtail access to the ballot.“This climate has reenergized the push to roll back progress on voting,” said Hannah Fried, the national campaign director at All Voting Is Local, a voting rights campaign of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. “The stuff that people are saying about vote-by-mail ― that it can’t be trusted, that there’s fraud ― that is patently false and has been demonstrated time and time again to be untrue. And yet they persist.”So far this year, Pennsylvania lawmakers have introduced 14 pieces of legislation meant to limit voting rights, , according to the Brennan Center for Justice. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisement“[Republicans] want to blame and call fraudulent any institutions or any voter or any election that doesn’t turn out the way they want.”- Pennsylvania state Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta (D)Advertisement.AdvertisementAdvertisementloyal enough. Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney’s vote to impeach Trump has .AdvertisementCORRECTION: This piece initially stated that Republicans have lost three consecutive Senate elections in Arizona. They have lost the last two. Suggest a correction

×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisement“So far this year, Pennsylvania lawmakers have introduced 14 pieces of legislation meant to limit voting rights, more than in any other state.”AdvertisementAdvertisementBack in state capitals like Harrisburg, those conspiracy theories are now driving efforts to erode voting rights and curtail access to the ballot.“This climate has reenergized the push to roll back progress on voting,” said Hannah Fried, the national campaign director at All Voting Is Local, a voting...

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