We need a voting rights workaround Albert Hunt, opinion contributor
The fate of American politics, especially voting rights, rests with an unwieldy concept: workaround.
Responding to Donald Trump s Big Lie that cheating cost him the November election, Republican state legislatures are moving to make voting harder. The rationale is to prevent voting fraud, a non-existent problem.
The real motive is to make it harder for minorities and young people to vote: They re the constituencies that won the election for Joe Biden as well as Senate victories for Democrats in previously Republican strongholds like Georgia and Arizona. These new planned restrictions - had they been in place - likely would have prevented that.