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Experts say claims of stolen elections don’t square with the reality that election administration in the commonwealth is local and decentralized.
Election administration is the management of the logistics of elections, particularly large democratic elections. [1] Common challenges in election administration include long lines at polling places, ensuring equitable access to voting, designing ballots so that voters can understand them as well as possible, ensuring that voters are registered where applicable, counting votes, and correcting ...
The United States is characterized by a highly decentralized election administration system. Elections are a constitutional responsibility of state and local election entities such as secretaries of state, election directors, county clerks or other local level officials encompassing more than 6,000+ local subdivisions nationwide. [24]
Following the 2020 US presidential election, decentralized administration and inconsistent state voting laws and processes have shown themselves to be targets for voter subversion schemes enabled by appointing politically motivated actors to election administration roles with degrees of freedom to subvert the will of the people. One such scheme ...
In the battleground state of Arizona – which became a hotbed for election falsehoods after Joe Biden flipped the traditional GOP stronghold by a little more than 10,000 votes – 12 of the state ...
In 2016 Homeland Security and the Director of National Intelligence said that United States elections are hard to hack, because they are decentralized, with many types of machines and thousands of separate election offices operating under 51 sets of state laws.
Lawyer Cleta Mitchell speaks during a hearing regarding the IRS on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S. February 6, 2014, in this frame grab taken from C-SPAN television footage.
Gauging the appropriate size or scale of decentralized units has been studied in relation to the size of sub-units of hospitals [48] and schools, [32] road networks, [49] administrative units in business [50] and public administration, and especially town and city governmental areas and decision-making bodies.