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More Robust Election Observation Could Help Save Elections

by DC Editors - March 18, 2022

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More Robust Election Observation Could Help Save ElectionsAs United States elections have increasingly come under attack from both foreign and domestic foes, more election observation will be needed to ensure the security of future polls. This article by David Levine is published by Alliance for Securing Democracy. Here is an excerpt:

Though the 2020 election was called the most secure ever conducted in the United States, confidence in the presidential election results remains strongly divided along partisan lines, and bad-faith actors continue to find fertile ground for their efforts to undermine trust in U.S. elections. Deficient and potentially dangerous post-election reviews of the 2020 election, like that in Arizona, have exposed sensitive information about election equipment and data. Leaks of election technology by rogue election administrators have made election infrastructure more vulnerable. Significant numbers of experienced election officials are resigning in response to violent threats.

These developments have coincided with many new state laws that make U.S. elections more vulnerable to potential autocratic interference and do not address proven election administration issues. As two eminent election experts — former Kentucky GOP Secretary of State Trey Grayson and Dr. Barry C. Burden of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison — noted, the Arizona Senate review of the 2020 election in Maricopa County used inexperienced, biased personnel and procedures that were not rooted in scientific principles nor justified in terms of convenience and security. As a result, its findings did little more than feed disinformation and conspiracy theories. And in Texas, the governor signed a law that targets local elections officials and poll workers with unwarranted penalties, needlessly empowers partisan poll watchers, and significantly reduces access to voting. Such actions have undoubtedly contributed to the United States being labeled a “backsliding democracy” for the first time. Despite the ongoing efforts by bad-faith actors to make sure the next attempt at U.S. election subversion succeeds, there are few indications that such efforts will be effectively countered anytime soon.

Given the barrage of threats to U.S. elections, more robust election observation efforts — particularly nonpartisan observation — could be critical to helping ensure the integrity of future elections, beginning with the 2022 midterms. Nonpartisan observation could provide an opportunity for the public to learn directly about the election process and give them greater faith that elections are free and fair. It also could help check bad-faith actors actively seeking to undermine confidence in U.S. elections through improper actions or baseless assertions about election rigging and malfeasance. In addition, nonpartisan observation could provide important information to those on the front lines of elections as they strive to continuously improve their election processes.

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Filed Under: Democracy in America Tagged With: American State Elections, Election Security

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