Republican Efforts to Make Voting Harder May Backfire

Republican state lawmakers across the country are introducing hundreds of bills to restrict voting access — sometimes rationalized as a push for election security, other times openly expressed as a strategy to gain partisan advantage.

“It is nearly an article of faith among Republicans that making voting harder will help them at the ballot box,” writes Rob Griffin in an op-ed for The Washington Post. In the piece, Griffin offers evidence to challenge this notion.