"From The Atlantic, this is Autocracy in America. I'm Anne Applebaum. This season, we've been talking about the Trump administration's unprecedented accumulation of power. But we're still missing one piece of the story: the elections themselves. We've heard people talk about how they fear soldiers on the streets could intimidate voters, or how crypto barons could try to manipulate campaigns. But the [Donald] Trump White House is also very interested in elections: how voters are registered, how they vote, how those votes are counted."
"Gibson: One of the races on the ballot was for the North Carolina Supreme Court. The election was between Allison Riggs and Jefferson Griffin. I actually went to vote as an early voter, and this is something that for many years I have done with my family. Showed my ID, went in, cast my vote, and really thought nothing else about it until a couple of weeks went by. I started hearing about this Jefferson Griffin list."
State officials and legislators are enacting stricter voter-ID rules, changing registration requirements, and creating lists to purge voters, often inspired by false claims about the 2020 election. The Trump White House took a strong interest in election mechanics: how voters register, how they vote, and how votes are counted. In North Carolina, more than 60,000 voters had the legitimacy of their votes challenged in 2024. Pastor Dawn Baldwin Gibson cast an early ballot in a North Carolina Supreme Court race; the State Board of Elections verified her compliance, but Jefferson Griffin's campaign challenged tens of thousands of ballots.
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