‘Easy to vote, hard to cheat.’ Kentucky threads needle on voter access.
When Joshua Douglas wrote a book on how individual Americans are trying to expand voting rights as a way to help their communities, he didn’t expect a large Republican readership.
After all, Republicans have spent years trying to make it harder to cast a ballot at election time.
So when Michael Adams, Kentucky’s chief election official, called in 2019 to congratulate him on his new book, he wasn’t sure what to think. Then Mr. Adams, a Republican, asked him if he would join a statewide commission on voting procedures.
Would it be an opportunity, wondered Professor Douglas, to expand access for voters? Or would he be a pawn to make a package of new restrictions look more palatable?
He said yes.
Later that year, Mr. Adams was elected as Kentucky’s secretary of state and oversaw last November’s
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