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2016 Postmortem

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1. petition asking Carter Center to monitor the 2016 election

Mon Apr 11, 2016, 01:13 PM

Apr 2016

Someone started a petition asking the Carter Center (via Jimmy & Rosalyn Carter) to monitor the US election last fall, but only about 1,500 people signed it.
I hadn't even heard about it.

https://www.change.org/p/president-carter-carter-center-president-carter-please-help-us-monitor-the-u-s-2016-presidential-election

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US elections too f'd up even for Carter Center to try to monitor [View all] TheDormouse Apr 2016 OP

petition asking Carter Center to monitor the 2016 election TheDormouse Apr 2016 #1

planned chaos is a thing. Cheese Sandwich Apr 2016 #2

then why have GOP been so busy changing state election laws? TheDormouse Apr 2016 #6

Yeah, well that's not how they work here. BKH70041 Apr 2016 #4

So your answer is to blame voters? azmom Apr 2016 #10

Ignorance of how the system works. BKH70041 Apr 2016 #11

I thought so. I can see why you azmom Apr 2016 #12

It's gotten worst actually nadinbrzezinski Apr 2016 #5

so what to do about it? nt TheDormouse Apr 2016 #8

People need to wake up nadinbrzezinski Apr 2016 #9