Our course ballot images won't be 2020's only election protection battleground.
Trump's GOP wants to strip from census and registration rolls millions of citizens of color, non-billionaires, and others who may be inclined to vote NO on a new dictatorship. The assault will target ways to (again) win the Electoral College while (as widely expected) losing the popular vote.
Al Gore, John Kerry, and Hillary Clinton all rolled over in races they legitimately won. Our survival now demands candidates willing to join Georgia's Stacey Abrams in refusing to concede stolen elections.
In the meantime, John Brakey (contact him at johnbrakey@gmail.com), his AUDIT team, and many others (hopefully including you) will be fighting for systems that might actually get us nearer a fair and accurate vote count.
And nationwide, as the issues of ballot marking and imaging flow into the mix, the question of how to secure a reliable, verifiable vote count in 2020 and beyond will require a huge grassroots effort.
In this century, with the likes of Donald Trump in the White House, Thomas Jefferson's warning that preserving democracy requires "eternal vigilance" remains an epic understatement.
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