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Voter Suppression and Other Threats to the 2020 Presidential Election

Voter Suppression and Other Threats to the 2020 Presidential Election

Released Thursday, 25th April 2019
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Voter Suppression and Other Threats to the 2020 Presidential Election

Voter Suppression and Other Threats to the 2020 Presidential Election

Voter Suppression and Other Threats to the 2020 Presidential Election

Voter Suppression and Other Threats to the 2020 Presidential Election

Thursday, 25th April 2019
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Since a surge of new voters participated in the 2018 midterm elections, Republican legislatures have introduced measures to limit those voters’ ability to cast their ballots. At the same time, research indicates that some of the methods historically used to suppress voter turnout—particularly in communities of color—were exploited by Russian hackers to influence the outcome of the 2016 Presidential election. Jelani Cobb joins Dorothy Wickenden to discuss the past, present, and future of voter suppression.

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