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Voter-Fraud Allegations in Midterm Elections Highlight Need for Federal Election-Law Reform

Voter-Fraud Allegations in Midterm Elections Highlight Need for Federal Election-Law Reform
Voters cast their ballots in Los Angeles on June 5, 2018. California's voter rolls have been plagued by problems. Mario Tama/Getty Images
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California was in the headlines a few days ago for its creative use of absentee ballots for vote “harvesting.”
That’s how three Republican candidates, who apparently won on Election Day last month, ultimately had victories snatched away in losing to Democrats days after the election. In California, 5 million absentee votes changed the future of the apparent winners.
Carol M. Swain
Carol M. Swain
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Dr. Carol Swain, an award-winning political scientist and former tenured professor at Princeton and Vanderbilt Universities, is a Distinguished Senior Fellow for Constitutional Studies with the Texas Public Policy Foundation and the co-author of "Black Eye for America: How Critical Race Theory is Burning Down the House."
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