Election 2017: What an Honestly Counted US Election Might Look Like
NOVANEWS
Election 2017’s results speak volumes about the truth of our country and are worth real celebration. But anyone who draws the conclusion, based on those results, that 2018 and 2020 won’t be rigged is someone I’d love to see across a poker table.
by Jonathan D. Simon
SANTA CRUZ, CALIFORNIA (Analysis) — In the wake of last week’s off-off-year mini-election in the U.S., there’s been a lot of undisguised celebrating going on, even among the professionally impartial. Protests, parades, petitions, polls, tweets, and op-eds may be indicators of national mood, but elections remain the only official scorecard — our democracy’s periodic and infrequent opportunity for the public to weigh in, on the record. With America riven apart and in a state approaching an all-out internal Cold ...