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In 1999, Tim Meisburger helped Indonesia run its first open election in almost half a century.
âThe people were very distrustful of the process because in the past the party in power rigged elections to get the outcome they wanted,â Meisburger, former Director of Democracy and Governance at the U.S. Agency for International Development, explained. The United States helped fund more than 500,000 election observers across the country to prevent voter fraud and ballot tampering.
âBecause of that scrutiny, the elections were fair and honest,â Meisburger added.
Today, Meisburger is trying to get America to adopt the same election integrity measures we encourage other countries to use to build confidence in their elections.
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Lansing A county commission in rural northern Michigan can t require local election officials to provide access to their voting equipment for a so-called forensic audit, says a letter from the state s election director, Jonathan Brater.
The letter dated last week comes as the Republican-controlled Cheboygan County Board of Commissioners contemplates whether to allow an outside group to audit the county s voting machines amid an ongoing push by supporters of former President Donald Trump to question the results of the 2020 election. The Michigan election law entrusts clerks with choosing and maintaining their voting systems and does not provide any authority for county commissions to take control of this equipment, Brater wrote Cheboygan County Clerk Karen Brewster on Thursday.
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A worker passes a Dominion Voting ballot scanner while setting up a polling location at an elementary school in Gwinnett County, Ga., outside of Atlanta on Monday, Jan. 4, 2021, in advance of the Senate runoff election there.
The Ohio Supreme Court has ruled that Stark County Commissioners must buy the voting machines selected by the county board of elections.
The Stark County Board of Elections asked the state’s highest court to compel the county commissioners to approve the contract after the commissioners attempted in March to block the purchase of 1,450 machines from Dominion Voting Systems.
The voting machine company has found itself at the center of debunked 2020 election conspiracy theories promoted by allies of former President Donald Trump.
The Ohio Supreme Court has sided with a county elections board in a dispute over buying voting machines that stems from the 2020 presidential election; the U.S. Supreme Court is leaving in place an appeals court decision that the family of a Black driver who was fatally shot by a white police officer in Euclid cannot sue the city or the officer; Governor Mike DeWine says nearly 2.8 million residents have registered for Ohio’s Vax-a-Million vaccination incentive prize ahead of tomorrow's first drawing, and more stories.