I know just about everyone here thinks Rachel Maddow walks on water...however...
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Rachel Maddow missed the boat ENTIRELY with her U.S. Election Assistance Commission segment yesterday (7-13-2026)
Consider this article from the Washington Post, 8-30-2007:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/29/AR2007082901928.html?hpid=opinionsbox1
A Rigged Report on U.S. Voting?
By Tova Andrea Wang
After the 2000 Florida election debacle, Congress established a body called the Election Assistance Commission to improve voting and democracy in this country. Two years ago, the commission approached me about doing a project that would take a preliminary look at voter fraud and intimidation and make recommendations for further research on the issues.
Because my approach to election issues tends to be more closely aligned with Democrats, I was paired with a Republican co-author. To further remove any taint of partisanship, my co-author and I convened a bipartisan working group to help us. We spent a year doing research and consulting with leaders in the field to produce a draft report. What happened next seems inexplicable. After submitting the draft in July 2006, we were barred by the commission's staff from having anything more to do with it.

What was the problem? In all the time we were doing our research and drafting the report, neither the staff nor the commissioners, who were continually advised of our activities and the substance of our work, raised any concerns about the direction we were going or the research findings.
Yet, after sitting on the draft for six months, the EAC publicly released a report -- citing it as based on work by me and my co-author -- that completely stood our own work on its head.
Consider the title. Whereas the commission is mandated by law to study voter fraud and intimidation, this new report was titled simply "Election Crimes" and excluded a wide range of serious offenses that harm the system and suppress voting but are not currently crimes under the U.S. criminal code.
We said that our preliminary research found widespread agreement among administrators, academics and election experts from all points on the political spectrum that allegations of fraud through voter impersonation at polling places were greatly exaggerated. We noted that this position was supported by existing research and an analysis of several years of news articles. The commission chose instead to state that the issue was a matter of considerable debate. And while we found that problems of voter intimidation were still prevalent in a variety of forms, the commission excluded much of the discussion of voter intimidation.
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It is imperative to read the entire article to get a sense of the shady work of the EAC back from when it was first established.
It is time for ALL citizens to demand HAND MARKED PAPER BALLOTS for this election. PERIOD.
No BMDs that turn your vote into a QR Code, etc. like they do in swing states such as GA and PA.
Rachel Maddow needs to do real research regarding real election integrity and stop with her superficial (aka inaccurate) reporting. Election integrity is a complex topic and at the very least, we need to hear from election cybersecurity experts such as J. Alex Halderman, U. Michigan. The decades old talking point of “don’t say anything about the machines or people won’t vote” is a red herring. Say something and demand a hand marked paper ballot!!!!!