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Democracy Is on the Ballot [1]
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Date: 2022-10-22
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It may not be all warm and fuzzy — but it definitely is something that should be discussed more openly. History has the wreckage of authoritarian nations, who have ignored such forces, to ill-effect and their national peril.
Poll: A Majority Of Americans Think Democracy Is In Trouble
by Siladitya Ray, Forbes Staff -- October 19, 2022
[...] A New York Times-Sienna Poll published earlier this week reported that 74% of likely voters believe American democracy is under threat , but most respondents were divided on the cause. The poll also found that 69% of registered voters trust that the results of the midterm elections will be accurate.
Slightly more than half of all American adults believe democracy is not working well , according to a new Associated Press/NORC poll published on Wednesday, [...]
Democracy on the ballot -- What do election deniers want?
by Elaine Kamarck and Norman Eisen, Brookings Institution — October 20, 2022
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Having politicized how people voted, it was no surprise when, on Election Day, Republicans tended to turn out to vote in-person and Democrats tended to vote early or absentee. This is what Trump and his campaign anticipated—creating what has come to be known as the “red mirage.” Since a large number of Republicans turned out in-person, and those votes are often counted first, the earliest returns in a number of states tended to show Trump in the lead. And yet, as the night and following days demonstrated, once the absentee ballots arrived and were counted, the tally changed as well. On November 7, 2020, most national news outlets called the election for Biden.
The Election Deniers’ platform
The election denier movement includes three broad election administration agendas:
Changing how votes are cast,
Changing how votes are counted,
Changing control of election results.
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Today’s election deniers have focused on proposals they claim will make the absentee ballot process more secure in spite of a dearth of any proven fraud in 2020. Many want to ban “no-excuse” absentee balloting and restrict early voting, a reversal of the trend that happened in the summer of 2020. The movement would also like to ban mass mailings of absentee ballots—which are, by definition, “no-excuse” ballots.
There are calls for abolishing “drop-boxes” for absentee ballots, limiting the number of drop-box locations or requiring that the drop-boxes be under the physical control of an election official. [6] For instance, one candidate for Secretary of State applauded a recent court decision limiting the use of drop-boxes. There are also proposals to ban people from dropping off ballots from their cars, a popular form of voting in 2020 when many were reluctant to enter public places for fear of catching COVID.
Some candidates would like to get rid of early voting altogether; others would like to shorten the time before Election Day during which people can cast an early ballot.
Other proposals go to the absentee ballot itself, requiring identification such as date of birth, a special early voting number or the voter’s driver’s license number for the ballot to be valid. Still other proposals include [...]
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