U.S. Supreme Court,
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Oct. 29, 2018
How voter suppression is destroying our democracy
This is a puzzle addressed by Carol Anderson, in her new and hard-hitting book. Not surprisingly, much of the story of voter suppression can be explained by racial discrimination.
Marc D. Alexander
Attorney and Mediator
Alternative Resolution Centers (ARC)
Approaching the homestretch of the 2018 mid-term elections, the forecasting website FiveThirtyEight predicted that Democrats would have to win the popular vote by 5.6 points to regain control of Congress -- a substantial vote spread, particularly so because incumbents begin with an advantage. How did we get to a point where a majority of Congress is elected by a minority, and where in two of our last five presidential elections, the winning candidate did not garner th...
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