MB Civic

Lindorff ..

this year hard-right officials in at least two states — Texas and Iowa — have threatened to have [Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)] international observers arrested and criminally charged if they attempt to monitor any polling places in those two states. Other states may join them .. the whole election process in the US is badly broken. Not only has the country moved backwards over the past 12 years in terms of making it easier for people to vote. It has also put the whole process in jeopardy by pushing for electronic voting, substituting computers, which leave no paper trail to audit them for accuracy or for recounts .. The computer voting machines are produced, maintained, run and even tallied up by the private companies that make them, not by elected or civil servant officials of municipal or county or state elections departments as in years past. Some of the companies that make the machines and do this counting are directly linked to Republican candidates

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