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Ballot Blockers

The state officials behind a new era of voting restrictions

IN MOST STATES, the power to expand or curtail the right to vote is largely in the hands of an obscure official, the secretary of state. Thirty-one of these secretaries are currently Republicans or aligned with the GOP. And four of them have gone to extraordinary lengths to make it harder to

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