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Election Security

David Becker: Making Elections More Secure

2026-02-16T17:51:53-05:00

In the weeks before the 2020 election, David Becker correctly dismissed the many concerns being expressed at the time that the presidential vote would somehow be corrupted. His reason: The long-tenured election officials who would oversee the election. Since we published this, those officials have come under attack from anti-democracy elements in American society, as has Becker and ERIC, the voter registration database that he created.

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