Re: [Electionintegrity] Get Ready! Pulitzer Prize Winning Author Tracy Campbell - Tues 7pm ET

[Douglas Cragoe]

Somebody on the election integrity e-mail list recommended Cambell’s book and I bought a used library copy.  I highly recommend this historical look at U.S. elections.  If you read it you will understand why Professor Campbell would not be pleased  with many of the major changes HR1 will bring to U.S. elections if it passes.  

Doug Cragoe

On Mar 21, 2021, at 9:15 AM, Lulu Friesdat <shuga...@gmail.com> wrote:

Pulitzer Prize nominee Tracy Campbell joins us to discuss the “culture of corruption” that has permeated U.S. elections historically.

Over 100 people are signed up to attend - Please join us for this riveting conversation.

Professor Campbell's book, “Deliver the Vote" is perhaps the most comprehensive collection of U.S. election fraud ever published. He describes a “powerful rationale” that considers “cheating part of a game that one has to practice in order to counteract one's equally corrupt competitors."

The question is: Can we make lasting changes that will create a fair playing field for all? Join us, as always, for a vibrant, respectful, non-partisan conversation as we "Elevate Election Reform to an Urgent National Priority."

Tuesday March 23 at 7pm EST

I have been trying to get activists to read Dr. Campbell's book since the first edition came out. Thank you for featuring his remarkable work! - Jan BenDor, Statewide Coordinator, Michigan Election Reform Alliance. 

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Tracy Campbell specializes in twentieth century United States political and social history. His work has been featured on NPR, and has the rare honor of receiving glowing reviews in both The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. Read Professor Campbell's full bio. 

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Moderator: Lulu Friesdat, Election Security Journalist, Co-Founder & Executive Director of SMART Elections

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[Lulu Friesdat]

[Douglas Cragoe]

Brad,

Professor Tracy Campbell (a man) wrote his book in 2005.  Quote from the end of the book, after documenting the U.S. history of election fraud:  “More than ever, the civic life of the nation needs people going to the polling places to cast their votes, rather than through the Internet or by mail.”  So I suspect he would not be pleased with the expansion of vote by mail in HR1, but we will hopefully know more when he is interviewed.  

Earlier in the book:  “Yet new proposals are making obtaining and manipulating absentee ballots easer than ever.  In May 2004, Jeb Bush signed into law a bill that allowed Florida voters to cast absentee ballots without even a witness signature.  If this safeguard had been removed in 1997, the evidence to overturn the Miami mayor’s race would not have existed.  The new law stated:  “Requiring a witness signature placed an undue burden on law-abiding voters, resulting in legitimate ballots being rejected on a technicality.”  The Orlando Sentinel casually noted the “Fluoride will essentially vote by mail,” since all a voter needed to do was request an absentee ballot, sign it, and return it without ever leaving home.  Leon County’s Supervisor of Elections, Ion Sancho, who had previously tried to reject some absentee votes if the same witness signed more than six ballots, worried that the lax requirements raised “the specter of fraudulent activity.”  Florida was not alone in relaxing rules for absentee ballots.”

Sorry Brad, but I have not listened to your talk with Ion Sancho who you had recently on your show.  Did you talk about absentee ballots?

There are some proposals in the book, such as getting rid of the electoral college, that progressives would agree with.  But even some progressives are not in favor of the ballot harvesting that HR1 would allow everywhere.  It used to be banned in California until a few years ago.  I’m sure Tracy Cambell would be opposed to ballot harvesting, having seen what happened in the past.  

I plan to post excerpts here from a recent editorial against HR1 from a conservative writer at the L.A. Daily News.  

-Doug Cragoe

On Mar 21, 2021, at 12:58 PM, Brad Friedman <Br...@BradBlog.com> wrote:

Would welcome your summary about what she (or you) "would not be pleased with" from HR1, Doug.

 

Brad