US POLITICS

Read these two good sites on recent state legislation affecting elections and voting rights:  and .

Read these three articles on

Then do your own additional research from academically legitimate and evidence-based sources. This might include government data, empirical data, and/or scholarly and journalistic publications.

Your paper should address the following questions: Drawing on the above sources, relevant course materials, and your own independent research, how do you interpret and make sense of the growing political, partisan, and state conflicts over and lawmaking that affect the conduct of elections and voting rights? Why is this conflict occurring now? And what are the likely consequences for American democracy and the future of the United States?