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" Some proposed laws politicized the oversight of elections by giving state legislatures, secretaries of state, or election boards the ability to arbitrarily overturn legitimate election results. Many of these laws passed in states where the Republican Party controlled both the legislature and the governorship. By the end of 2021, at least nineteen states passed legislation that made it harder to vote. "

Resmaa Menakem , The Quaking of America: An Embodied Guide to Navigating Our Nation's Upheaval and Racial Reckoning


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Resmaa Menakem quote : Some proposed laws politicized the oversight of elections by giving state legislatures, secretaries of state, or election boards the ability to arbitrarily overturn legitimate election results. Many of these laws passed in states where the Republican Party controlled both the legislature and the governorship. By the end of 2021, at least nineteen states passed legislation that made it harder to vote.