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Zachary Roth was a fellow and former editorial director of the Brennan Center. Prior to joining the Brennan Center, he was a national reporter at MSNBC. He is the author of The Great Suppression: Voting Rights, Corporate Cash, and the Conservative Assault on Democracy (Crown), which was the runner-up for the 2017 J. Anthony Lukas Prize awarded ...
- Trump Voters Wrongly Believe The Election Was Rigged
- Gerrymandering Could Skew Elections in Many States For Another Decade
- And Speaking of The Supreme Court
- Our Other Undemocratic Institutions Are No Closer to Being Fixed, Either
This one could be the subject of a column on its own. The president’s barrage of false claims about voter fraud have convinced many of his supporters — over three-quarters, by some measures — that he was the true election winner, and that President-Elect Joe Biden’s administration will be illegitimate. With their voters in thrall to this lie, elect...
The upcoming redistricting cycle, set to kick off early next year, could also strike a major blow against fair elections. To be sure, some of the states that saw the most extreme partisan gerrymanders last cycle may get fairer maps this time, either because they passed reforms to the process or because they now have divided government, giving both ...
The justices have so far declined to get behind Trump’s bid to reverse the election. But before we get complacent, remember that there were four votes (not including Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who had just joined the court and recused herself) for the radically anti-voter position that Americans should be disenfranchised if their ballots arrived la...
Similarly, the Senate results have all but ended talk of adding the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico to the union. That means the Senate will continue to give small states, which tend to be rural and conservative, far more clout than their size deserves. That’s not just a problem for democracy in the abstract. Because these states are more like...
Zachary Roth is the National Democracy Reporter for States Newsroom. He is a former national reporter at MSNBC, and the author of The Great Suppression: Voting Rights, Corporate Cash, and the Conservative Assault on Democracy (Crown, 2016).
Mar 30, 2020 · Zachary Roth is a fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice and a former national reporter for MSNBC. He is the author of The Great Suppression: Voting Rights, Corporate Cash, and the Conservative ...
Apr 3, 2024 · Zachary Roth. Zachary Roth is the National Democracy Reporter for States Newsroom. He is a former national reporter at MSNBC, and the author of The Great Suppression: Voting Rights, Corporate Cash, and the Conservative Assault on Democracy (Crown, 2016). He has also written for The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, The New ...
By Zachary Roth. | Kansas Reflector. With less than six months before voting begins, the legal jousting over the rules for the 2024 election is already underway. And former President Donald Trump’s campaign is getting support from allies who have stayed mostly under the national radar: red-state attorneys general.
Mar 27, 2024 · By: Zachary Roth - October 6, 2023. Lately, a rough consensus has emerged among people who study the impact of voting policies: Though they often spark fierce partisan fighting, most changes to voting laws do little to affect overall turnout, much less election results. But one fast-growing reform appears to stand out as an exception.
