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Election Protection

iwight.com

What good is a democracy without fair and clean elections? In this piece for Tom Paine, Art Levine looks ahead to the November vote, and explains ways concerned Americans can protect it.

There are a host of concrete steps you can take up through Election Day to keep votes from being robbedӗand admirable national and local groups (see resources here) you can join to help prevent the sort of meltdowns that happened in Ohio in 2004.

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