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State legislators. Policy experts. Industry leaders. Three days focused on solving America's biggest challenges.
The Rainey Center National Summit is coming to Orlando, Dec 7–9, with keynote speaker @TheOfficerTatum
More info at the link in bio or below!
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1860: Pony Express riders carry news of Lincoln's election west in under a week.
1864: States expand absentee voting for Civil War soldiers.
@jaldendaniels on how mail and American elections have been intertwined ever since.
Watch the full video at the link in bio.
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Social media didn't just disrupt elections for the worse. @katieharbath on the upside we've forgotten, and why the goal is to amplify the good and mitigate the bad. From her Disrupting Politics launch, hosted by @SarahEHunt01 and moderated by @robsmithonline. #RaineyCenter #DisruptingPolitics
The ranked choice tabulation itself? A click of a button.
As Utah County Clerk, @jaldendaniels produced RCV results on election night. The delays elsewhere come from collecting, verifying, and centralizing ballots, not from the ranked choice count.
Link below 👇
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Forget AI slop. @katieharbath is watching "AI candy": AI content we can't detect and don't mind because it's entertaining. Why that matters for politics heading into 2028, from her Disrupting Politics launch with @SarahEHunt01 and @robsmithonline.
#RaineyCenter #AIandElections
"We can disagree about who should win and still build an election system we can trust together." — Josh Daniels, Rainey Center Director of Election Policy
Americans who want stronger safeguards and Americans who depend on mail voting share the same goal: making every lawful ballot secure and accountable. Josh lays out how in his latest Substack, "Delivering Democracy Through Secure Mail Voting." Link in bio.
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Read "Delivering Democracy Through Secure Mail Voting" by @jaldendaniels: raineycenter.substack.com/p/…
Ranked choice voting doesn't cause delayed results. The tally takes seconds.
Former Utah County Clerk @jaldendaniels ran Utah's first RCV elections. In our new Substack, he explains that the real bottlenecks are mail ballot windows and whether states release preliminary tallies. With Alaska and Maine's Senate races in the spotlight, faster and more transparent reporting builds trust.
Link below 👇
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What the USPS ballot mail rule does NOT do:
- Decide who's eligible to vote
- Make a federal citizenship list the state voter list
- Have postal workers intercept completed ballots
What it does: standardized envelopes and a unique barcode on ballots out and back. @jaldendaniels explains. (Not being enforced for 2026.)
Watch the full video at the link in bio.
#RaineyCenter #FreeAndFairElections #Midterms2026
America's elections aren't run from one office in Washington. State lawmakers set the rules, local administrators carry them out, and federal agencies support security and enforce voting rights.
That spread of responsibility is a safeguard: no single administration, party, or company controls the whole process, and records can be checked at multiple levels.
From @SarahEHunt01 in "Election integrity is a reason to trust America's vote." Link in bio.
#RaineyCenter #FreeAndFairElections #Midterms2026
Before results are final, election officials run them through a series of checks: equipment tested before use, ballot totals reconciled with participation records, paper ballots checked against electronic counts, and post-election audits.
In North Carolina, bipartisan teams hand-count randomly selected ballots after every election. In Georgia, all 159 counties took part in a risk-limiting audit in May 2024.
More from @SarahEHunt01 at the link in bio.
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OUR NEW SUBSTACK: Faster election results build voter trust.
In his latest piece, @jaldendaniels examines how Alaska and Maine can deliver faster, more transparent ranked choice voting results without sacrificing accuracy.
Voters deserve timely results and confidence in the process.
Read the full piece below or at the link in our bio!
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Tracking follows the envelope. Verification checks the voter. Ballot secrecy protects the choice.
They're three different jobs, and good election policy keeps them straight. A postal scan shows a ballot moving through the mail, but only election officials can confirm it was received and accepted. None of it ever reveals how someone voted.
Josh Daniels explains in "Delivering Democracy Through Secure Mail Voting." Link in bio.
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Read "Delivering Democracy Through Secure Mail Voting" by @jaldendaniels: raineycenter.substack.com/p/…
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The @RaineyCenter National Summit is ALMOST HERE!
On December 7-9, join me, our Executive Director @sarahehunt01 , @RepFine, @TheOfficerTatum, and MORE at Walt Disney Resort Orlando as we discuss the most pressing policy issues facing America today!
RSVP: raineycenter.org/national-su…