S01E41 Bill Cowles, The Politics of Voting Rights
American Voting System Upended through New Laws, Courts
July 18, 2021 –New voting rights laws in several conservative states combined with a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling upholding them have thrown the American voting system into disarray, a Florida Supervisor of Elections said.
“The irony is that the 2020 election was the highest turnout in our country,” said Orange County Supervisor of Elections Bill Cowles. “As an elections administrator who is trying to figure out how to run the election in 2022, we’re trying to figure out what the norm is going to be.”
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