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    MWEG Opinions,  Protect the Vote

    Protect the Vote? Damn Tootin’ We Can

    Election Day is 100 days from today. One hundred days is very little time to prepare for the complexities of voting during a pandemic, made obvious by several recent tumultuous primary elections and a resurgence of absentee ballot requests from voters who don’t want to — or can’t — risk voting at the polls. Last month in Georgia, for example, thousands braved rain, heat, and virus exposure after their requested mail-in ballots did not arrive. An 80-year-old woman hoping to vote in Atlanta said, “What is going on in Georgia? We have been waiting for hours. This is ridiculous. This is unfair.” An investigation is looking into why the “catastrophe”…