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Saturday Evening Post covers in celebration of voting
It seems elections bring out the worst and best America has to offer. These classic Post covers capture the hope, hostility — and humor — when it’s time to go to the polls.
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Arizona gave women the right to vote years before the nation, but not without a fight
Arizona gave women the right to vote in 1912. But the constitutional provision could have been adopted even earlier, if not for the liquor lobby.
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Election Security At The Chip Level
Why your electronic voting options might not get better any time soon: RISC-V-based solution under development, but the very nature of a voting system raises issues.
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Thousands of Russians rally to demand free elections
Thousands of Russians took to the streets of central Moscow on Saturday to demand free elections to the capital’s city legislature on Sept. 8, defying a ban which has been enforced with violent detentions during previous protests.
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The Simple, Odious Reason Mitch McConnell Opposes Election Integrity
The sinister influence on the Senate majority leader is not the Kremlin, but a Republican Party that seeks to keep certain Americans from voting.
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Mitch McConnell, Too, Welcomes Russian Interference
Or at least he won’t let Congress do anything to stop it.
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DARPA Is Building a $10 Million, Open Source, Secure Voting System
The system will be fully open source and designed with newly developed secure hardware to make the system not only impervious to certain kinds of hacking, but also allow voters to verify that their votes were recorded accurately.
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Texas officials flag tens of thousands of voters for citizenship checks
It’s unclear exactly how many of those individuals are not actually U.S. citizens and whether that number will be available in the future.
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Here's how Republicans hijacked a bill designed to 'Help America Vote' — and used it to block people from voting
GOP voter suppression is the best answer to significant discrepancies between exit polls and actual vote counts. There’s a fascinating history to what Joe Madison calls “James Crow, Esq., voting suppression”—and that history tells us what we can do to solve the problem of Republicans using the Help America Vote Act to block people from voting in largely Democratic areas.It started with the 2000 election “debacle” in Florida.
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The ugly truth about voting security: States won’t fix it
Georgia, Texas cases show states whistling past voting security graveyard. By Sean Gallagher.
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Voting Machines: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
United States elections are not evidence-based elections. Their potential vulnerability is critical because the entire system of our democracy depends on public trust—the belief that, however divided the country is, the result has integrity. Nothing is more insidious and corrosive than the idea that the tally of votes itself could be unreliable and exposed to fraud. By Jennifer Cohn.
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There Will Be No Blue Wave
Contra the conventional wisdom, Democrats are far from having 2018 locked up. By Peter Van Buren.
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If Trump's talk of Democratic 'mobs' is meant to scare Republicans to the polls, it's working | CBC News
Republicans are repeatedly portraying Democrats as a
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Video: Turkey tracks down the opposition, beyond its borders - France 24
REPORTERS : Ahead of Sunday’s presidential and parliamentary elections in Turkey, our reporter went to meet members of the Turkish opposition, who ha...
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Spoiled Latvia’s image in the international arena
Latvia is actively preparing for one of the most important political event of the year. Parliamentary elections will take place in October 6, 2018. Submissions of the lists of candidates for the 13th Saeima elections will take place very soon – from July 18 to August 7, 2018. But the elections campaign as well as all political life in the country faces some problems which require additional attention from the authorities. And these problems spoil the image of Latvia as a democratic state which might respect the rights of its people.
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Lawsuits Challenge Electoral College System in Four U.S. States
A coalition that includes a Latino membership organization and a former Massachusetts governor filed lawsuits on Wednesday challenging how four U.S. states allocate their Electoral College votes in presidential elections.
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Election Security a High Priority — Until It Comes to Paying for New Voting Machines
Local election administrators across the country face new problems and threats. But their budgets for new voting equipment remain inadequate. By Kate Rabinowitz.
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In final-hour order, court rules that Alabama can destroy digital voting records after all
Alabama is allowed to destroy digital voting records created at the polls during today's U.S. Senate election after all. At 1:36 p.m. Monday, a Montgomery County Circuit Court judge issued an order directing Alabama election officials to preserve all digital ballot images created at polling places across the state today.
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Researchers warn state system to catch voter fraud has 99% false positive rate
Crosscheck system uses data that could easily have legit duplicates, researchers show. By Sean Gallagher.
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A background check before voting? Kobach-led commission will consider proposal
Trump’s voting commission will weigh a proposal Tuesday about requiring a background check before a person can register to vote — similar to buying a gun. By Brian Lowry.
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