CNN: Voting access becomes flashpoint in midterms just weeks away from Election Day

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Taken together, the state laws and GOP officials’ actions show Republicans are trying to “rig elections,” said Let America Vote board chairman Abe Rakov. Republicans counter that they are trying to secure the vote.

Republican state officials were emboldened, Rakov said, “when the President lied about all the illegal voters” in 2016’s presidential election. Trump falsely claimed that millions of illegal votes were cast, despite there being no evidence of widespread voter fraud.

“That lie laid the political groundwork for Republicans to think they had the political cover to do this,” Rakov said.

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