WASHINGTON, DC – The right to vote is under attack in the United States.
This is not news. From the start of 2021 until early December, at least 19 states passed over 30 laws to restrict access to voting. In Florida and Georgia, this even took the form of barring the distribution of snacks and water to voters waiting to cast their ballots. Elsewhere, the windows to apply for and return a mail ballot were shortened. Polling place availability and early voting days have been reduced in some states, too. All of this follows the 2020 presidential election. The former president Donald Trump claims, still, that that election was stolen, and has particularly focused on votes in cities with large black American populations, which he casts as illegitimate.
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