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From the Ted Talk by Tiana Epps-Johnson: An election redesign to restore trust in US democracy
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This year-round work is hard. And it's often super thankless. And the last two years have been some of the worst. Election officials who _____ millions of ______ currently lack the basic __________ that they need to reliably do their work. It either doesn’t _____, or it’s shockingly outdated. In the year 2020, we supported a _____ New England town replace their hand crank ballot box that they had been using since the early 1900s to count _______. One was literally held together by duct tape. Even worse, the people that ________ our voting process, the election officials, are currently under attack. In ________ for being outspoken about the _________ of the process that they managed in 2020, which, by the way, turned out to be our highest turnout election in the US in over a century and the most secure election ever administered in our history, according to our national security community --
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Original Text
This year-round work is hard. And it's often super thankless. And the last two years have been some of the worst. Election officials who serve millions of voters currently lack the basic technology that they need to reliably do their work. It either doesn’t exist, or it’s shockingly outdated. In the year 2020, we supported a small New England town replace their hand crank ballot box that they had been using since the early 1900s to count ballots. One was literally held together by duct tape. Even worse, the people that underpin our voting process, the election officials, are currently under attack. In exchange for being outspoken about the integrity of the process that they managed in 2020, which, by the way, turned out to be our highest turnout election in the US in over a century and the most secure election ever administered in our history, according to our national security community --
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