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X marks the spot: why old-fashioned voting may be better than modern.
Do you remember the Election Crisis of 2006? In the weeks before November 7, Democrats laid the groundwork for widespread legal challenges to voting results, readying themselves to find irregularities, voter suppression, and outright fraud in precincts across America. Activists on the left established hotlines--call 866-OUR-VOTE!--and assembled platoons of volunteer lawyers. This time, they vowed, Republicans would not get away with stealing an election.
And then Democrats won. The hotlines went quiet. The lawyers went back to work. The crisis went away.
Which left some Capitol Hill Republicans who have worked with Democrats on so-called "election ...
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