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> https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/01/us/politics/republican-pollwatchers.html

This NYT article is all about poll-watching. Although the sub-headline states that "Republican lawmakers seek to make voting harder and more confusing," the article offers no evidence for the validity of that assertion. That subheadline is based on the following paragraph from the article:

>*"As Republican lawmakers in major battleground states seek to make voting harder and more confusing through a web of new election laws, they are simultaneously making a concerted legislative push to grant more autonomy and access to partisan poll watchers — citizens trained by a campaign or a party and authorized by local election officials to observe the electoral process."*

The article's author, Nick Corasaniti, simply states, as if it were an indisputable fact which requires no substantiation, that GOP politicians want to make voting "more confusing." And perhaps most Democrats who read the New York Times just assume that those bad dude Republicans are out to subvert democracy by confusing the voters -- as if everyone knows that to be true. But the article is not about supposed Republican efforts to confuse voters, nor are any examples of that offered in the article.

Is it true? Is that what Republicans up to? It could be, but if so, then it's the job of the NY Times to show us that that is the case.