JB: Very interesting. I'm sure that will all come as a surprise to many who have badmouthed Stein and doubted her motives. Bottom line: What did we learn about the recounts besides for the fact that DT still officially captured the presidency, despite his unprecedented loss of the popular vote?
DC: We have created an extensive FAQ section your readers can peruse here.
I will let Jill speak for herself. Here is a direct quote from an interview with Vanity Fair.
"It doesn't bother me at all to give voters the respect of actually knowing that we have a system we can be confident in. As a medical doctor, I know that when you go use a health-care facility, you want to know that there are backup systems in place. And a vote is no less important. When you ride an airplane you want to know there are extra safety systems. And we deserve to have that kind of confidence in our voting system, especially at a time when confidence in our political system and in our social institutions are at an all-time low. There are a bunch of things we need to fix about our political system. But this is one thing we can start with right now."
JB: Well said. What's the purpose of these conferences she's been organizing, in Philly and more recently, in Milwaukee?
DC: The goal of these conferences is to continue the struggle for fair and verifiable elections. And to be explicit-- we need to completely overhaul US elections. Imagine these structural reforms that would empower ordinary people and fix our broken elections with real democracy:
- Eliminate the doctrine of corporate personhood that among other things has been used to justify unlimited corporate spending in elections with a constitutional amendment to clarify that only human beings have constitutional rights.
- Enact electoral reforms that break the big money stranglehold and create truly representative democracy: full public election financing, ranked-choice voting, proportional representation, and open debates.
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