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Right, the interest in having auditable and secure elections is not simply a right/left issue and does not mean one's an "election denier" or an "insurrectionist". It just stands to reason that basic controls for governance should be a key attribute of how elections are run, and no, the feds shouldn't be paying for this, imo.

In my home state, a Republican candidate (albeit disowned) was indicted for ballot harvesting, particularly for hiring a consultant from CA to run around through a particular east Asian community collecting ballots. If a system works, every politician will exploit it.

* ID's should be required (like they are for everything else, including travel, bank accounts, bars, etc);

* voter rolls should be scrubbed;

* election results should be auditable;




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