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The Right Stuff: Voting needs to be secure, verifiable

The Right Stuff: Voting needs to be secure, verifiable Voting is arguably our most precious right. Voting gives we the people the ultimate check and balance in our republic. It allows us to hold accountable those in power. Thus, reaffirming the citizens’ authority over governance. From the first recorded democratic elections in ancient Greece, people have interfered in elections to suit their interests. This is arguably human nature. “In questions of power then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.” That’s Thomas Jefferson. Citizenship has obligations and privileges. Citizenship was highly prized and jealously guarded because with citizenship comes the vote; voting is real power. Have we forgotten this?

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