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This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and guests about politics.

It's Thursday, January 13th. I'm Dorothy

Wicenden, executive editor of The New Yorker. You know, for the right to vote and have that vote

counted is democracy's threshold liberty. Without it, nothing is possible,

but with it, anything is possible.

While the denial of fair and free elections

is undemocratic, it is not unprecedented.

Black Americans were denied full citizenship

voting rights until 1965.

Women were denied the right to vote just 100 years ago.

The United States Supreme Court in recent years is weak in the Voting Rights Act.

And now, the defeated former president and as supporters used a big lie about the 2020 election

to fuel torrent and torment and anti-voting laws.

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