N.J. has expanded voting rights. But it still hasn’t taken steps to protect elections from claims of fraud.

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New Jersey is among a half dozen states that do not require paper trails allowing election officials to check that voting machines were not hacked and results not tampered with.

in which the Republicans reportedly targeted heavily minority communities that tend to support Democratic candidates.

To settle a voter intimidation lawsuit, the Republican National Committee agreed not to undertake “ballot security activities” in minority communities “where a purpose or significant effect of such activities is to deter qualified voters from voting.” That consent decreeSylvia Albert, who runs the voting and elections program at Common Cause, said the provision was designed to ensure that voters won’t face intimidation at the polls.

Where New Jersey continues to lag behind is in requiring all voting machines to have paper trails, so the state or a municipality can audit results to make sure the voters were recorded accurately and the machines were not hacked. Get politics news like this right to your inbox with the N.J. Politics newsletter. Add your email below and hit"subscribe"“It is definitely helpful to squash those lies,” Albert said. “Everybody watched Georgia count every ballot by hand three times. It really takes the wind out the sails. If you can hold a ballot in your hand and see how it was voted, it helps people recognize the stability of the system.

 

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You mean have a 90 year old lady check to see if my signature matches the one from when I was 18 isn’t a good way to secure an election?

every election is a fraud, every vote a suppression

These people *choose* not to understand the difference between a sample ballot and a mail-in one. Nothing is going to move them off that dime. DrOz

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