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WHO REALLY COUNTS

Voters cast their ballots during early voting in Atlanta on Oct. 18

A Republican operative of otherwise dubious election-year morality once told me his red line: strategies that attempt voter suppression must be rejected, always. Your candidate should not win by embracing tactics that represent the antithesis of democracy. Not in 2018. Not in America. And especially not in the Deep South.

The region’s blighted history of oppression against African Americans reveals what

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