{"id":6458,"date":"2023-02-23T03:22:46","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T03:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emoryhistorynews.wordpress.com\/?p=6458"},"modified":"2023-02-23T03:22:46","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T03:22:46","slug":"anderson-cited-in-the-hill-piece-on-voter-suppression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/2023\/02\/23\/anderson-cited-in-the-hill-piece-on-voter-suppression\/","title":{"rendered":"Anderson Cited in ‘The Hill’ Piece on Voter Suppression"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Associated Press-Jeff Amy | Voters fill out forms as they wait in line to cast ballots in the last hour of early voting in the Atlanta suburb of Tucker, Ga., on Friday, Nov. 4, 2022. Many Georgia polling places reported a crush of voters on the last day of the state\u2019s early voting period.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Carol Anderson was recently cited in an article written for The Hill<\/em> and titled “GOP voter suppression measures are working, despite Democratic wins<\/a>.” Written by veteran journalist Al Hunt, the op-ed discusses how Republican-led efforts to restrict voting access in recent years appear to be decreasing the number of votes cast, especially in states like Georgia and among Black and Hispanic voters. Hunt references Anderson’s chapter on voter fraud in the newly-released collection of essays Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(Basic Books, 2023). Read an excerpt from Hunt’s article below, along with the full piece<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Whether Georgia or elsewhere, the stated rationale is to \u201cprevent fraud\u201d \u2014 it\u2019s just that when pressed, they can\u2019t produce any. Ben Ginsburg, who for decades prior to Trump was the most prominent Republican election lawyer in America, suggests voting fraud is the \u201cthe Loch Ness Monster of the Republican party \u2026 People spend lots of time looking for it, but it doesn\u2019t exist.\u201d

This isn\u2019t a new phenomenon. The 15th Amendment prohibited discrimination in the right to vote on the basis of race. After Reconstruction, southern segregationists found a new tact, writes Emory University historian Carol Anderson, in a chapter in a fascinating new book, \u201cMyth America.\u201d

Anderson writes: \u201cThe operatives and politicians camouflaged their discriminatory intent behind the charge of voter fraud to create the illusion that their primary concern was election integrity and democracy.\u201d

Sound familiar?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr. Carol Anderson was recently cited in an article written for The Hill and titled “GOP voter suppression measures are working, despite Democratic wins.” Written by veteran journalist Al Hunt, the op-ed discusses how Republican-led efforts to restrict voting access in recent years appear to be decreasing the number of votes cast, especially in states […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1282,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,16,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","category-public-humanities","category-publications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}