{"id":30014,"date":"2021-02-01T18:11:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T23:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/?p=30014"},"modified":"2021-02-08T18:14:42","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T23:14:42","slug":"voter-turnout-was-a-2020-bright-spot-but-it-might-not-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/2021\/02\/01\/voter-turnout-was-a-2020-bright-spot-but-it-might-not-continue\/","title":{"rendered":"Voter turnout was a 2020 bright spot, but it might not continue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;line-height:18px\">By Herb Jackson<br><em>CQ Roll Call<\/em><br>Feb. 1, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Excerpt<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Brennan Center for Justice at New York University\u00a0released a study Tuesday\u00a0showing that state legislators have introduced three times the number of bills to restrict voting access when compared to the same point last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThey\u2019re misdiagnosing the problem. They think the reason Trump lost is because of Democrats voting by mail,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stetson.edu\/law\/faculty\/home\/ciara-torres-spelliscy.php\">Ciara Tor<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stetson.edu\/law\/faculty\/home\/ciara-torres-spelliscy.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">r<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stetson.edu\/law\/faculty\/home\/ciara-torres-spelliscy.php\">es-Spelliscy<\/a>, a Brennan Center fellow and law professor at Stetson University. \u201cIt\u2019s entirely possible that Trump so badmouthed voting by mail that it probably depressed the vote-by-mail by Republicans in enough key states that he lost his own presidency.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size: 11.5px;line-height:18px;padding-bottom:15px;\">This article was originally published on the CQ Roll Call website on Feb. 1, 2021, with the headline, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollcall.com\/2021\/02\/01\/voter-turnout-was-a-2020-bright-spot-but-it-might-not-continue\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Voter turnout was a 2020 bright spot, but it might not continue<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brennan Center for Justice at New York University released a study Tuesday showing that state legislators have introduced three times the number of bills to restrict voting access when compared to the same point last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[394],"class_list":["post-30014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-in-the-news","tag-ciara-torres-spelliscy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - 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