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Experiments in Democracy

Most states have tweaked their election laws in the last two years. But assessing how those changes will affect this year’s midterms is hard to do.
Early elections in the US state of Georgia
Citizens vote early in Atlanta on October 22. (Photo by Nathan Posner/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Despite the 2020 election achieving the highest turnout in recent American history and being generally secure, only 47 percent of Americans say they have “a great deal” or “quite a bit” of confidence that the results of next week’s midterm elections will be counted accurately. Over the last two years, that sour outlook has bled into what usually is a banal political process: state legislatures making election law changes.

Price St. Clair is a former reporter for The Dispatch.

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