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As the Postal Service reforms its mail distribution, and after a year when its role in elections was in federal court, mail balloting has trust issues.
- By Chris Deaton
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While dissimilar in nature, list management lapses sometimes crop up in states. Their randomness points to human and software errors generally — not a problem with noncitizen voting or another particular issue.
By Chris Deaton
More than 300 soldiers in Kentucky just deployed on a mission unknown. How will they get ballot access for the Midterms?
The Senate reached an inevitable end point, after a legislative year of bluster about the SAVE America Act from its boosters and one last failed vote on a voter ID measure.
By Chris Deaton
‘I’d say any election, anywhere in the country today is better than it was six or seven years ago.’
‘American elections are accessible, secure, and accurate. We should be proud. Nonetheless, we should continue to improve American elections. And we should have conversations about documented proof of citizenship.’
For the same reasons [Americans] trust the elections in their backyard, they should trust the elections in my backyard.
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