Meridians 20:1

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Ginetta Candelario, Smith CollegeFollow

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1–10

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4-1-2021

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Duke University Press

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Editor's Introduction to the issue archived as published by Ginetta E. B. Candelario.

The Smith College community has full-text access to the journal Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism.

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I write this in mid-November of 2020, after one of the most contentious presidential elections in my lifetime. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many states began allowing and even encouraging the use of absentee voting/mail-in ballots to reduce the risk of infection during in-person voting. Although he himself votes by mail, the outgoing president began a systematic and sustained campaign of maligning the legality and validity of absentee ballots, claiming without evidence that they were more vulnerable to “illegal voting” and fraud, and encouraging his constituent base to vote in person on election day....