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user-inactivated  ·  2249 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Full text of Carter’s letter to Georgia secretary of state

    Are these elections held under state laws?

Yes. Some states, mostly in the south, used to need federal approval to make changes, because they had a history of preventing black people from voting, but that was undone in 2013. Take a guess what happened next.