Kepler
Si certus es dubita
Want evidence that State Legislators believed this nonsense? I'll enter as exhibit A the 250+ voter restriction laws that GOP legislators have introduced in state houses in 2021. These people believed her crap. And these people's opinions matter.
To be fair, almost all of those laws are Jim Crow 2 and driven by conservatives' methodical program to stop black people from voting. They are apartheid measures which would have happened independent of Powell.