“When we balance out what’s more important, speed or accuracy, it’s not even a close call. We should be expecting accuracy and adjusting our expectations in regards to speed.”

— David Becker, Executive director of the Center for Election Innovation & Research, in Iowa’s Lesson: Political Parties Are Not as Good as Government Officials at Counting Votes, by Jessica Huseman, Jack Gillum and Derek Willis, 4 February 2020

Election 2020

“It's disappointing that the state has this rule in place, that the voters would have to vote using the system we want to replace in order to have the system that we want to replace be replaced.”

Shelby County Tennessee Commissioner Mick Wright, on the county's inability to upgrade voting machines before the upcoming 2020 elections, Ballot Bombshell: Election Machine Issue Becomes Moot by Jackson Baker, The Memphis Flyer, 13 February 2020. Via Jennifer Cohn (@jennycohn1). As Orwellian as this sounds, Commissioner Wright, a Republican in a county known for voting rights abuses, wants to replace the current crappy system with one that uses Ballot Marking Devices — a tech @jennycohn1 has convinced me is *bad news for democracy*.