Midterms give lies to Democrats and Republicans

After electoral law reforms in many conservative states, the Democrats feared for the fairness of the system. But the Midterms showed that the left-wing horror scenarios were exaggerated, and that the Republicans are only harming themselves with their fantasies of fraud.

The American electoral system works: Raphael Warnock is elected as the first African-American senator in the southern state of Georgia for a full term.

Carlos Barria /
Reuters

Driven by Donald Trump’s allegations of fraud, parliaments in many conservative states set about reforming their electoral laws in 2021. It is about restoring the “integrity of the electoral system”, was the tenor of the Republicans. Democrats, on the other hand, feared that the reforms would limit their electorate’s access to the polls. “At least 19 states have passed 33 laws making voting more difficult,” it wrote the Brennan Center for Justice a year ago. In most cases, postal voting will become more complicated and the bureaucratic hurdles for voter registration will increase.

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