Why Kentucky Just Became the Only Red State to Expand Voting Rights
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April 7, 2021, 11:56 AM·8 min read
A polling station during the primary election in Louisville, Ky., on June 23, 2020. (Erik Branch/The New York Times)
Jennifer Decker has solid conservative credentials. A first-term Republican state lawmaker in Kentucky who used to work for Sen. Rand Paul, she represents a county that voted for Donald Trump last year by nearly 30 percentage points.
Yet at a time when many of her Republican counterparts around the country are racing to pass stringent new restrictions on voting fueled in part by Trump’s falsehoods about the 2020 election Decker’s first major bill swerved.
Why Kentucky Just Became the Only Red State to Expand Voting Rights
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