Democracy on the Brink
Democracy on the Brink
One party is racing to fix an ailing electoral system. The other is doing everything in its power to shut voters out of it
Andy Kroll, provided by
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WASHINGTON In the coming weeks, the battle over democracy’s future in America will hit a boil.
On one side is a group that looks at the last election and sees a resilient but damaged system. A system that withstood sometimes only barely a raging pandemic, a conspiracy-theory-peddling president, a major political party all too eager to amplify that president’s lies, a wave of hail-mary lawsuits intended to overthrow the election result, and a violent insurrection in the halls of the U.S. Capitol.