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Credit...Illustration by Arsh Raziuddin, Photos via Getty About two years ago I did something foolish: I wrote an optimistic column arguing that a polarizing issue was ripe for de-escalation and compromise. The issue was voting rights, where Republicans have long championed voter ID laws as a bulwark against alleged voting fraud, while Democrats have countered that such restrictions unfairly burden many Americans, racial minorities especially, in the exercise of their hard-won right to vote. The good news, I said back then, was that lots of studies suggest that voter ID laws don’t do either...

By John A. Tures REPUBLICANS seem to be on a mission to reverse the 2020 election results. One step for the GOP involves making it harder to vote in the future. If these misguided initiatives succeed, America will be a little less democratic, but will see a lot more Democrats win at the ballot box. That’s because absentee voting has historically benefitted the Republican Party. The story begins with a moment people once used to describe racism in America. Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley was all set to be the first African American governor since Reconstruction. Exit polls showe...