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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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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You cannot credibly call an anti-majoritarian system fair. A child can tell you that in a democracy, the candidates and parties with the most votes should win. It's critical to vote anyway, in spite of this, and to achieve a super-majority mandate to implement fair democracy.
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Calling an election fair in this context is not a moral claim, but an assertion that ballots cast = ballots counted
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