That quote appeared in yesterday’s New York Times and comes from the Democratic secretary of state of Maine, where election officials are appointed by the State Legislature, not elected alongside other statewide officeholders.

The Times continues its focus on election reform this week, with a front page story about new efforts to limit corruption and partisanship in election administration. Discussion of how an election could be “stolen” by election officials or voting machine companies in the United States is by some immediately filed in the same category as UFO sightings. But reporter Ian Urbina explains why and how it’s possible and how talk of how to prevent election administration corruption - or even the appearance of conflict - is now becoming more mainstream.
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