When I was trailing @JDScholten around Iowa, at every gathering there were questions about ballot integrity and how to vote safely. As things get more heated, please remember that the easiest way to subvert a free, fair election is to undermine people's faith in the processhttps://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1294413147663564801 …
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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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The US really isn't the world's oldest democracy. I think 50-something countries had universal suffrage before the US. Only 6% of the pop - propertied white men - could vote at the beginning. This might be a Greek democracy, but not how modern civilization understands the word
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Being the what?! Everyone else has furniture older than the US and its electoral process.
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