Jonathan Chait looks at a new paper from political scientist Jacob Grumbach which finds that “the states that backslid on democratization over the past 16 years were shared a single characteristic: Republicans gained full control of their state government.”
“In other words, states that are rolling back democratic protections are not responding to demographic change nor to any change internal to their state. They are following the agenda of the national Republican Party. That agenda is spreading throughout the states, which are imposing voter restrictions almost everywhere their party has the power to do so. Restricting the franchise has become perhaps the party’s core policy objective.”
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