Over the past two years, Republican states in the US have passed several voting rights laws and measures under the guise of fighting voter fraud. The new rules, experts warn, are opening avenues for voter intimidation and poll interference, making the midterm elections on November 8 a test of the US election system and of American democracy.
Two years after a presidential election contested by the loser, tensions are mounting ahead of the November 8 US midterm elections. Donald Trump’s “stolen election” assertions have never been proven, due to a lack of evidence of large-scale voter fraud. But that has not stopped several Republican states from enacting new laws to "fight the fraud". These laws have been denounced by democracy rights organisations as attacks on the right to vote.
