Posted on May 24, 2022
The election system shuddered in 2020. Now, there are fears of an attack within
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If you really break it down, a national election in America consists of one basic interaction, repeated millions of times.
A voter checks in with an election worker. The election worker gives the voter a ballot. This is what allows voters to vote.
It is democracy at its most elemental level, and it's important that it works.
That's why a couple dozen poll worker trainees streamed into a conference room in a government complex surrounded by farms in West Olive, Michigan on a recent Wednesday night. Ottawa County Clerk Justin Roebuck wants to make sure that the tens of thousands of poll worker interactions in his county go off without a hitch.
"They're the face of our democracy," he says.
This year, for the first time, Roebuck is preparing his poll workers for the possibility that one of those among them could try to sabotage democracy — by interfering with an election.
It's a scenario that seems more plausible than it did a few years ago, thanks in part to a video of Ryan Kelley, a Republican candidate for Michigan governor, that made headlines this year.
If you really break it down, a national election in America consists of one basic interaction, repeated millions of times.
A voter checks in with an election worker. The election worker gives the voter a ballot. This is what allows voters to vote.
It is democracy at its most elemental level, and it's important that it works.
That's why a couple dozen poll worker trainees streamed into a conference room in a government complex surrounded by farms in West Olive, Michigan on a recent Wednesday night. Ottawa County Clerk Justin Roebuck wants to make sure that the tens of thousands of poll worker interactions in his county go off without a hitch.
"They're the face of our democracy," he says.
This year, for the first time, Roebuck is preparing his poll workers for the possibility that one of those among them could try to sabotage democracy — by interfering with an election.
It's a scenario that seems more plausible than it did a few years ago, thanks in part to a video of Ryan Kelley, a Republican candidate for Michigan governor, that made headlines this year.
The election system shuddered in 2020. Now, there are fears of an attack within
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It does need to work. And the way 2020 went down, many people feel the system failed. Hopefully 2022 will be better.
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I believe that we need to improve our system, do away with drop boxes and absentee ballots only on request. A week after the Pennsylvania primary we still can’t declare a winner, that is insane. Early voting in person and as I said, absentee ballots on request.
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LTC David Brown
Capt Gregory Prickett - what are you talking about? Is there mail on the reservation? Last I checked people over seas have mail, and get mail in ballots. All the liberals claimed Georgia laws were “suppressing “votes. Well so far we have had record voting. Any of the people you listed incapable of asking for a mail in ballot? I have been deployed and have relatives deployed. Voting laws were stricter yet they voted. Is it ok it takes over a week to count ballots during the Information Age?
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