“Fairfax elections report doesn’t answer whether GOP hoped to discourage voting”

Robert McCartney WaPo column: “The most provocative question raised by the severe poll delays in parts of Fairfax County on Election Day in November was whether the problems resulted from a nefarious plot by the Republican-controlled elections apparatus to discourage voting in Virginia’s largest Democratic county. So it’s frustrating that that concern was precisely the one left unclarified in Tuesday’s bipartisan commission report on how to ensure that such waits don’t happen again.”

One thing Charles Stewart made clear in his presentation at the University of Virginia conference this weekend was that the problem of long lines is not the same everywhere: causes differ, and that means that fixes will likely differ too.

So not, “We have to fix that,” but “We have to fix those.”

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