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JoinSign inShare this postWhy State Election Reform Bills Don’t Signal a New Jim Crow Erathedispatch.comCopy linkTwitterFacebookEmailApr 2, 2021Share this postWhy State Election Reform Bills Don’t Signal a New Jim Crow Erathedispatch.comCopy linkTwitterFacebookEmail Washington PostWhen it comes to stretching the facts about the legislation recently passed in Georgia, Biden is far from alone. The law, widely portrayed as a horrendous venture into so-called voter suppression, actually contains many provisions that liberalize access to ballot methods that came in handy during the pandemic, such as early voting, as well as addressing the genuine problem of long lines at polling places.&nbsp;PostBusiness Insider.National Review Online Hold on. Aren’t Republican state legislatures bent on taking shocking, novel, and extreme plunges into a “new Jim Crow” era? Isn’t the result to put in doubt whether America is even going to go on having a system of democracy? Joe Biden went so far as to describe the Georgia bill “Jim Crow on steroids” while endorsing a call to remove the MLB All-Star game from the state.If the terrain over which people are bickering is solidly within the range of election law considered normal a half dozen years ago, it’s probably not a return of Jim Crow, nor is it likely to spell the end of American democracy. And most of the bickering—on measures likely to pass—is on stuff like this.passintroduceWhy are the bills actually passing in states like Georgia and Kentucky more moderate? One reason is that many of the steps liberalizing absentee, early, and dropbox voting, whatever their other tradeoffs and demands on resources, make life more convenient for voters. Voters like convenience! That goes for many Republicans too, as well as groups like retirees and time-pressed businesspeople who often have the ear of GOP lawmakers.Election administration is an imperfect art with many genuine tradeoffs. Don’t treat ordinary disagreements about them as attempts to destabilize America’s system of majority rule. If American democracy is in peril—and that might be a discussion worth having in light of what happened between November 3 and January 6—laws of this sort are not very good evidence for that proposition.Like this postShare this postWhy State Election Reform Bills Don’t Signal a New Jim Crow Erathedispatch.comCopy linkTwitterFacebookEmail307 CommentsFor your security, we need to re-authenticate you.Click the link we sent to , or .Expand full commentExpand full commentNo posts© 2022 The Dispatch ∙ ∙ &nbsp;is the home for great writingThis site requires JavaScript to run correctly. Please or unblock scripts

JoinSign inShare this postWhy State Election Reform Bills Don’t Signal a New Jim Crow Erathedispatch.comCopy linkTwitterFacebookEmailApr 2, 2021Share this postWhy State Election Reform Bills Don’t Signal a New Jim Crow Erathedispatch.comCopy linkTwitterFacebookEmail Washington PostWhen it comes to stretching the facts about the legislation recently passed in Georgia, Biden is far from alone. The law, widely portrayed as a horrendous venture into so-called voter suppression, actually contains many provisions that liberalize access to ballot methods that came in handy during the pandemic,...

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