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The Coming Coup: How Republicans Are Laying the Groundwork to Steal Future Elections -Ari Berman, Mother Jones

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“What we’re seeing is a multifaceted, multilevel attack on American democracy,” says Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold, chair of the Democratic Association of Secretaries of State.Democrats are nearly out of time to stop them.Georgia is a microcosm of the extreme tactics Republicans are using across the country to entrench power in advance of the midterms. Over the course of 2021, 19 states passed 34 laws making it harder to vote—the greatest rollback of voting access since the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Those changes include more than a dozen GOP-controlled states passing new provisions to interfere with impartial election administration, while Trump and his allies aggressively recruit “Stop the Steal”–inspired candidates to take over key election positions like secretary of state offices and local election boards in major battleground states."

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