Oklahoma bucks red-state trend, extends early voting
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May 14, 2021
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — On Election Day last year, state Rep. Jon Echols was mortified to see a 3 1/2-hour line to vote in his district, which stretches from the edge of Oklahoma City's urban core into suburban neighborhoods that give way to wide stretches of rural land.
A nation like the U.S. — with "real, free and fair elections," Echols said — shouldn't make people wait so long to participate in democracy.
"We should all be humiliated that we had that," Echols said.
He may sound like a voting rights advocate or a Democratic politician set on expanding access to the ballot, but Echols is a Repu...
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