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Transgender
Protecting the Right to Vote: The Only Way to Safeguard LGBTQ+ Rights
Republicans in nearly every state have introduced legislation to restrict voting access. These laws, which target primarily communities of color, people living with disabilities, members of the LGBTQ+ same-gender-loving community, and low-income people, make it harder for people to vote by mail, make early voting more difficult, impose harsher voter ID requirements on people with unstable housing and the inability to update their name, and make faulty voter purges more likely.