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This Isn’t Jim Crow 2.0

Ignore the phony partisan rhetoric. Washington needs to focus on the Electoral Count Act.
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President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump both say that American democracy is at risk, and that’s true—but they’re wrong about why. The problem isn’t that our elections are broken or somehow illegitimate. The problem is that politicians continue to manipulate the truth about our elections to serve their own interests, while ignoring a serious—but resolvable—legal ambiguity.

To distinguish the partisan noise from the truth, you need first to separate our electoral system into its

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