| The Nashville Scene asks: Is there any point in trying to export democracy if our own elections are rigged? All kinds of intimidation and misdirection happen at every level. Gumbel argues this isn't a nadir of electoral politics; it's just business as usual. The closer the election, the higher the stakes-and the larger the ambition of the players involved, the greater the chance it will be manipulated. |
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Joan Brunwasser is a co-founder of Citizens for Election Reform (CER) which since 2005 existed for the sole purpose of raising the public awareness of the critical need for election reform. Our goal: to restore fair, accurate, transparent, secure elections where votes are cast in private and counted in public. Because the problems with electronic (computerized) voting systems include a lack of (more...)