As Alexander Hamilton wrote of the Electoral College in Federalist 68, the presidential “election should be made by men most capable of analyzing the qualities adapted to the station, and acting under circumstances favorable to deliberation, and to a judicious combination of all the reasons and inducements which were proper to govern their choice”.
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“We will not tolerate any sort of foolishness on Election Day, and it’s even insulting to suggest that Philadelphians would”, said Democratic City Councilwoman Cindy Bass. Local elections officials are among the many refuting Trump’s allegations.
Albrecht wants people to feel confident their vote will count, so no one decides to stay home on Election Day. Besides choosing our next commander in chief, Colorado voters will be deciding on a U.S. Senator, seven U.S. House seats, dozens of Colorado Senate and House representatives, and some very important ballot measures.
Fourth, one vote can and does make a difference. That’s more than in past elections, including 2012 and 2014.
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Justice Department officials are warning that they’ll be dispatching fewer trained election observers as a result of a Supreme Court opinion that gutted a key provision of the Voting Rights Act.
Despite recent repeated and unfounded claims from Republican Donald Trump that the election would be “rigged”, Wyman stressed that she has full confidence in the state’s election system. We still have just under three weeks to go. “But I’m not hearing that the level of paranoia is much different from in previous years”.
Additionally, the tabulation system isn’t connected to any outside system, and the board’s headquarters house a backup tabulation system, WKYC reports.
“Because in the news it’s been reported that elections databases in Arizona and IL were entered by hackers”.
Washington has more registered voters than ever before, with more than 50,000 new registrations just before last week’s deadline, spurred by reminders on social media. Advocates have called for additional time to be added so would-be voters can be accommodated. That said, we need a politician to lead our country. You can now spend Election Day doing pretty much anything else-like drinking (responsibly, of course!), hiding under the covers, celebrating, or planning your move to Canada.
There have been areas in the United States where election fraud has occurred in the past and could happen this year, said Pitt County Republican Party Chairwoman Ginny Cooper.
Advocates are most concerned about places where the scaremongering around voter fraud intersects with anti-immigrant rhetoric and a backlash against people of color.
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Smith is the president of Verified Voting, which advocates for legislation and regulation that promotes accuracy, transparency and verifiability of elections. “That’s certainly information that we can use after the election to then turn around and figure out how we can better prepare for future elections”.
