Amidst the first election in more than 50 years to take place without key protections of the Voting Rights Act, only 8.9 percent of TV news segments on voting rights from July 2016 to June 2017 “discussed the impact voter suppression laws had on the 2016 election,” while more than 70 percent “were about Trump’s false claims of voter fraud and noncitizen voting.”A new Mother Jones report on voter s...
