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From the Blog

Denver Goes "Back to Paper" -- Sort Of


A news article from Denver notes that the city is reversing its experiment from its last election, and going "back

Reflection on Independence Day


Yesterday, on July 4th, I took some time to reflect on nearly 400 years of elections in North America, in

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