I often get indignant replies when I call U.S. elections free and fair. But it's like describing American drinking water as clean and healthy. It's globally true even though there are important and inexcusable exceptions, often with a racial basis. One doesn't exclude the other
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What I do ask is that people expand their mental definition of election tampering to include attempts to persuade people that their vote won't be counted, or won't be counted fairly. That kind of attack is far easier to carry out than actual tampering, and on a far bigger scale
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If you are concerned about election safety, I can't think of anyone better to read and follow on this topic than
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If you are following American elections from abroad, the important thing to know is that the process is local and so there are approximately 1,392,302 different jurisdictions and sets of rules. Being the world's oldest democracy means having a lot of junk in the legal attic
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You can call U.S. elections free and fair without endorsing any of the the anti-majoritarian features of the system. It's a narrow claim—a reassurance that every valid vote gets counted, and no other votes get counted. Without a general belief in this correct claim, we are sunk
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If you are an American, one of the best things you can do is volunteer to be a poll worker. This is particularly true if you are young and less at risk for covid than the elderly people who typically do this job. Everyone I know who has worked polls says it changed their thinking
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