Help me with this one please Read it first then look at the small picture SUNDAY

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Help me with this one please Read it first then look at the small picture SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12.20 Using a Myth to Hold On to Power Given the increased political power Republicans won Rights Act "intrusive. In 1986, the Senate rejected Mr. Sessions as a nominee for the federal bench, based in the last elections, from Washington to red-state legisla- racially offensive comments and his role in tures, voters might expect the party to feel that the na- voter fraud case against black civil rights activists in Ala- quite well. Yet this is tion's voting procedures are working far from the case, as triumphant Republicans are using Research shows voter fraud is a minuscule occur. their enhanced clout to continue their campaign playing with an incident rate at no higher than 0.0025 per- up the mythical threat that voter fraud abounds in the na- cent at worst, according to a study by the Brennan Center for Justice. For all their concern about voter fraud, House The newest and loudest zealot in this cause is, of Republicans are attempting to terminate the Election As- course, President Trump, with his scurrilous claim that millions of illegal ballots cost him a popular vote sistance Commission, which was created to protect ballot His baseless claim only encourages the renewed efforts at integrity after the 2000 presidential election's hanging voter suppression reported to be underway in a score of chad fiasco, President Trump has cried fraud in his obses- Republican-dominated statebouses intent on making it sion with undermining the fact that Hillary Clinton proved harder for citizens to register or vote. more popular in the total vote. He is citing as an authority Mr. Trump is trying to sell the false idea the ruminations of a discredited right-wing conspiracy fraudulently denied a clear mandate. that he was theorist. Offering no real evidence, he has called for a islators, in turn, are no more Republican state leg- suspicions, to be led by convincing but just as cynical sweeping federal inquiry into his Vice President Mike Pence. in insisting that elaborate new ballot protections ident Trump's postelection concern should be needed protections that effectively target poor people intelligence finding that Russian with the minorities and students, who tend to favor Democratic hackers interfered with the election campaign, apparently in favor of him. But he is narcissistically concerned with These include proposals requiring voters to produce his own vote tally. Instead of looking into the threat of for- new or tighter voter identification documentation and eign foul play, he would rather join the Republican chorus photos at the polls. Other measures would eliminate the of Election Day registration, which invites that is undermining vital respect for democracy more turnout. Some measures make it more difficult for college students to claim residency to vote near their col- leges; others shorten early voting periods that encourage greater participation. These are the sorts of hurdles federal courts struck down in some states before the last election astransparent voter suppression. In North Carolina, the courts found the Republican Legislature had blatantly used racial data to deny African-American voters their franchise with a re- gressive program of "almost surgical precision Fourteen states had new registration and voting re- strictions in effect last year, pushing a conservative agenda devised to secure and protect Republican incum bency. They were encouraged by a 2013 Supreme Court ruling that struck down a key provision of the Voting Rights Act requiring some states to obtain Justice Depart- ment approval before changing election la With this vital protection gone and President Trump inveighing against nonexistent voter fraud, the threat to voter confidence in ballot integrity is considerable. The new state attempts at voter suppression are un derway in a political environment that has drastically changed. Jeff Sessions, the new attorney general, is hardly likely to be as proactive as the obama administration was investigating complaints of voter suppression by the is on record as finding the Voting states. Mr. Sessions

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The main argument the writer here wishes to make is that trump administration has created a false hoax, that votes that are being polled are not exactly legal and hence stringent requirements for voter verificatgions are required.
the ramifications are that based on data known to the parties, this can be used for selective ease for the voters for the same party and creating hurdles for voters of the other party to vote and hence which would prodeuce a biased result in favor of the party in power.

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