Behind the Campaign to Put Election Deniers in Charge of Elections

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Behind the Campaign to Put Election Deniers in Charge of Elections
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The job of secretary of state has been repurposed from a mainly administrative office to a linchpin in the right-wing effort to manipulate elections, suehalpernVT writes.

who questioned the outcome of the 2020 election, to replace her. The new system, Marchant told the commissioners, is one “that we can roll out all over the country.”

Early voting for the November 8th midterm elections begins in Nevada during the third week of October, and ballot counting can start shortly afterward. Kampf is expecting around eighty per cent of Nye County voters to cast ballots before Election Day, which will take some pressure off of those doing the hand-count. He thinks that eight teams of five people will be able to complete the count in thirteen days or sooner.

French elections, however, are nothing like American elections. French citizens vote by slipping a piece of paper preprinted with a candidate’s name into an envelope, which they then drop into a transparent box. Presidential elections and parliamentary elections occur on different days, which makes ballots, and counting them, much simpler than in this country, where ballots can run to two or three pages, with candidates vying for anything from President to dog catcher.

As more Nevada counties began to consider eliminating computerized voting equipment, Cegavske tried to bring order to what had the potential to become chaos, with municipalities adopting different ways of manually tallying ballots. In August, she issued a temporary regulation intended to set consistent standards for counties that choose to adopt hand-counting.

The inherent virtue of democracy—allowing people to choose their own leaders—is also its inherent danger. To paraphrase T. S. Eliot, democracy’s end may be in its beginning: voting for candidates who promise to abandon democratic principles is a possibility. The America First Secretary of State Coalition understands this, and it is giving voters the choice to install candidates with no allegiance to the will of the people or to the peaceful transfer of power.

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