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Beyond the Ballot: Ensuring a Transparent, Secure, and Fair Election in 2024
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Beyond the Ballot: Ensuring a Transparent, Secure, and Fair Election in 2024

Election integrity is under the microscope as we near the 2024 Presidential Election, and many Americans are apprehensive about election security, the timeframe of learning the results, and how peaceful the transfer of power will be.

Episode 8: How to undercut political violence
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Episode 8: How to undercut political violence

Host Jay Ulfelder and Hardy Merriman discuss Merriman’s latest guide, titled Harnessing our Power to End Political Violence, which empowers people from all over the country to band together and support democracy by rejecting acts of political violence.

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