What 2021's recent elections tell us about voting in 2022 and beyond
Recent off-year elections showed that voters may not be so invested in making it easier to vote while Republicans may benefit from higher voter turnout than they previously had thought.
by Miles Parks
Nov 14, 2021
4 minutes
Pick any election truism, and 2021's elections earlier this month may have killed it.
Making voting easy is a death sentence for the Republican Party? Nope.
Mail voting is a slam-dunk for Democrats? Not so fast.
The American voting system is in the middle of a seismic shift, as state legislators propose and pass a flurry of laws restricting and expanding voting, and candidates navigate an electorate where a sizable portion of voters think the whole process is rigged.
Last week's elections gave us our first insights into this new playing field in 2022 and beyond:
1) New York, New York
Governor's races in Virginia and New Jersey got all the attention, but elections experts were most shocked at
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