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Federal government must produce overarching standards for elections and voting
Which is what I suggested when I got scared by reading the New York Times article on the 2016 Russian hacking and election snafus in North Carolina. A simple idea, right? It’s one role I think the federal government takes … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, The Facts of Life, voting and voting rights
Tagged 2016 election, federal rules for voting, North Carolinavoting rights, Russian election hacking, voting problems
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Bitter laughter: the 2016 election, voters rights and Canada
I’m quite behind in my Harper’s hard copy reading. Ergo, I opened the January 2017 edition only last night. (What can I say? I’ve been busy. Or something.) I picked up these three items from the Index, Harper’s one page … Continue reading
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Tagged 2016 election, Harper's Index, Harper's Magazine, voters rights, voting suppression
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“The America We Lost When Trump Won”
In yesterday’s NYT Sunday Review, Kevin Baker wrote an opinion piece for which I am profoundly grateful: it says everything I would write if I were as fluent as he is, and he has thus relieved me of that impossible … Continue reading
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Tagged 2016 election, politics
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