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Calvin Trillin

May 31, 2022

There was no line to vote at the polling place in Rush Township near Danville, Pa., on November 3, 2020. (Paul Weaver / Sipa USA via AP Images)

“Republican lawmakers this year passed an unprecedented bevy of bills targeting the authority of state and local election officials, a power grab that might allow partisan legislators to overturn future election results by claiming there was fraud.”—Stateline

Elections neutered by the right? Now fears of that are mounting. The battle’s changed from who can vote To who can do the counting.

Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”


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