Trump attacks and vote by mail: the top voting rights stories of 2020

The pandemic created new barriers to the ballot box and strengthened existing ones - aided by the president and his Republican allies

The fight over access to the ballot was one of the most important stories in America in 2020.

The country faced a pandemic that both offered new barriers to the ballot box and exacerbated existing ones. After election day, America faced an unprecedented effort to undermine faith in the election results as Donald Trump and Republican allies baselessly claimed fraud and brought a flurry of unsuccessful lawsuits seeking to get election results overturned.