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hprotagonist · 5 years ago
The handshake between business and labor was just one component of a vast, cross-partisan campaign to protect the election–an extraordinary shadow effort dedicated not to winning the vote but to ensuring it would be free and fair, credible and uncorrupted.

Without being glib, this is called "doing your job as a citizen".

perfectbeeing · 5 years ago
Protect the election from what?
unanswered · 5 years ago
From the wrong lizard winning, of course. (According to Douglas Adams.)
DangitBobby · 5 years ago
Did you read TFA? I know we're not supposed to ask the question on this site, but the article answers that question quite thoroughly.
underseacables · 5 years ago
This is horrible. It’s like the media ignoring everything Hillary Clinton ever did because they were “with her” in protecting democracy.
ardy42 · 5 years ago
> This is horrible. It’s like the media ignoring everything Hillary Clinton ever did because they were “with her” in protecting democracy.

You think this is horrible?

> The handshake between business and labor was just one component of a vast, cross-partisan campaign to protect the election–an extraordinary shadow effort dedicated not to winning the vote but to ensuring it would be free and fair, credible and uncorrupted. For more than a year, a loosely organized coalition of operatives scrambled to shore up America’s institutions as they came under simultaneous attack from a remorseless pandemic and an autocratically inclined President. Though much of this activity took place on the left, it was separate from the Biden campaign and crossed ideological lines, with crucial contributions by nonpartisan and conservative actors. The scenario the shadow campaigners were desperate to stop was not a Trump victory. It was an election so calamitous that no result could be discerned at all, a failure of the central act of democratic self-governance that has been a hallmark of America since its founding.

krona · 5 years ago
They got states to change voting systems and laws and helped secure hundreds of millions in public and private funding. They... recruited armies of poll workers...

For what possible purpose does one recruit an army of poll workers? I can't imagine.

sliken · 5 years ago
Poll's need workers, and normally that's mostly older retired volunteers, who would be much more at risk from COVID than younger workers.
ttt0 · 5 years ago
That's especially interesting considering that they didn't allow poll observers to observe the process.
Yoric · 5 years ago
I may be wrong, but I seem to remember that this was debunked.
1MachineElf · 5 years ago

Dead Comment