With the expected defeat of Democratic voting reform legislation looming on Capitol Hill, lawmakers may turn their attention to a compromise proposal that has attracted the support of marquis names on the Left, including Georgia activist Stacey Abrams.

That compromise, however, proposes some election reforms that are more restrictive than those in a recent Georgia law Abrams and other Democrats described as a “Jim Crow”-style suppression effort.

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