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Through the decades, the right to vote in U.S. elections has seen massive change and expansion. Since America’s founding days, when voting was limited to white male property owners, to the transformative Voting Rights Act of 1965, to sweeping voting process reform introduced in the early 2000s, the right to vote in U.S. elections has seen massive change. The original Constitution left voting rights to the states for a range of reasons, including a compromise over slavery and the fact that the concept of setting up a representative democracy was new, says David Schultz, a political science p...

The Atlantic These lawsuits have upended courts’ role in interpreting voting laws. December 3, 2020 Bettmann / Getty / The Atlantic As most people know by now, the dozens of lawsuits filed by the Trump campaign and Republican supporters aimed at overturning Joe Biden’s win have roundly failed. The public also seems to be gradually accepting the reality that the courts are not going to intervene in this election. Donald Trump himself recently told the Fox News presenter Maria Bartiromo, “The problem is it’s hard to get into the Supreme Court.” But don’t be fooled by the losses. Lik...

>> the reality is that a lot of the measures taken up by legislatures at the state level affect the voting accessibility of a certain population of folks. when you curtail early voting, when you challenge voters to produce a state issued i.d., all those things can be skewed along the lines of race and they are generally speaking. we can act like that's not the case but the reality is the efforts on the part of the republicans at the state level to improve the voting process has certain consequences that affect certain groups of people -- elderly, people of color, poorer people and those of the...