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Oct 16, 2016

More Democracy, Not Less

Whenever democracy itself is in trouble, the solution never includes less democracy.

Is this election rigged?
In 2016, the independent democracy non-profit Freedom House scored the United States electoral process as 11 out of 12.
A 2014 university study found only 31 cases of voter fraud out of one billion ballots cast since 2000.
"...by any measure, voter fraud is extraordinarily rare" - Report by NYU Brennan Center For Justice. 

Elections are run independently at the local level, by local citizens, under the supervision of both parties. More info in this thread

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