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As part of the leadup to the 2021 National Speech and Debate Association (NSDA) National Tournament, Extemp Central will be providing daily research & development (R&D) posts for each of the tournament’s fourteen topic areas. These will include links to important articles about each. It is hoped that these will aid in extempers preparation for this year’s national tournament.
In a statement published this week by the left-leaning think tank New America, more than 100 leading scholars of government warned that election laws in some states “no longer meet the minimum conditions for free and fair elections.” https://t.co/nZmUcakyGV
— New York Times Opinion (@nytopinion) June 5, 2021
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has promised a vote on sweeping election-reform legislation later this month, setting up a critical showdown on the future of the legislative filibuster. Here’s how that could play out, @Zachary_Cohen reportshttps://t.co/0p9gs7eSlx pic.twitter.com/wrDvXohSee
— National Journal (@nationaljournal) June 4, 2021
Glenn Youngkin, the private-equity boss-turned-Republican nominee for Virginia governor, wants to keep his gubernatorial bid focused on Democrats, not Republican divisions over former President Donald Trump https://t.co/2L52ogttjy
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) June 3, 2021
New Jersey is one of only two states with a scheduled gubernatorial election this year, making the primary an early temperature check on the state of the Republican Party https://t.co/SopUhYguEr
— POLITICO (@politico) June 3, 2021
A Black woman has never won a race for governor in the U.S., but two candidates in Virginia are hoping to change that this year. It’s part of a surge in candidacies by Black women around the country, including in races for important statewide offices. https://t.co/yznFtjtoXh
— The Associated Press (@AP) May 31, 2021
How do California recalls work? Who started the effort to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom? Here’s the June edition of the California Recall Encyclopedia of 2021. https://t.co/HrZsvrniSB
— NYT National News (@NYTNational) June 1, 2021
The announcement that Kamala Harris would be working to move a voting rights bill forward took many on Capitol Hill by surprise https://t.co/uLLKF72afX
— NYT Politics (@nytpolitics) June 3, 2021
One of the false narratives constantly pushed by liberals is that the efforts of states to reform and fix vulnerabilities in their election systems are somehow examples of “voter suppression.”
Nothing could be further from the truth. @HvonSpakovsky https://t.co/g6vw1Tbsax
— Heritage Foundation (@Heritage) May 27, 2021
The sum of the court’s rulings on elections could give the Republican Party a significant edge as it seeks to recapture control of Congress in 2022 and the White House in 2024. https://t.co/xcg5hmeznd
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) June 5, 2021
Asian Americans turnout in the 2020 election increased by 10 percent, more than any other racial or ethnic group between the 2016 and 2020 U.S. presidential elections. https://t.co/kMRmsD7Tfm
— NPR Politics (@nprpolitics) May 24, 2021