Crash Course: New Republican effort to feed "distrust of elections": They want to hand-count all ballots

If that sounds good in theory, it's not: Less accurate and slower results — a bad fix to a nonexistent problem [View in browser](~/AASU4wA~/RgRlPjtKP0Q2aHR0cHM6Ly9yZWFkLmxldHRlcmhlYWQuZW1haWwvY3Jhc2gtY291cnNlL2xldHRlci81Nzc3VwNzcGNCCmNPSrZbYx2RiV1SG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjg1QGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAKA~~) Your daily update from [Salon](~/AASU4wA~/RgRlPjtKP0QWaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc2Fsb24uY29tL1cDc3BjQgpjT0q2W2MdkYldUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW44NUBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAACg~). (Megan Varner/Getty Images) New Republican effort to feed "distrust of elections": They want to hand-count all ballots In what election experts call the latest effort to stoke widespread doubt about election security and the accuracy of vote-counting, Republicans in many rural counties are pushing to hand-count ballots in the upcoming midterms, despite no evidence of widespread fraud or voting machine irregularities. Hand-counting is far less accurate than machine counting, experts say, and is likely to create errors and delay results by hours, days or even weeks. In at least six states, Republican lawmakers have introduced legislation this year that would require hand-counting of all ballots instead of electronic tabulation. 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(Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) With America poised on the knife's edge, Joe Biden's silence isn't helping "What the world needs is a little hope," I was told as I walked down Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House Monday morning. The bearded young gentleman telling me this was a marijuana protester. Dozens of protesters had gathered near 17th and Pennsylvania, just a block from the White House. Shutting down traffic, they were dancing and chanting, apparently intent on getting themselves arrested. A police officer I spoke with about them simply grinned: "They're very peaceful." He expected no arrests. Bummer, man. They so wanted some ink. I've covered many a protest outside the White House, but none as gentle-spirited as those happy, mellow few who blocked traffic with a 20-foot-long replica of a spliff and brought smiles — even to the faces of Secret Service agents who had them under their watchful eyes. 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Colorado, Florida, and Idaho will not participate in a key part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's [Youth Risk Behavior surveys](~/AASU4wA~/RgRlPjtKP0Q3aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuY2RjLmdvdi9oZWFsdGh5eW91dGgvZGF0YS95cmJzL292ZXJ2aWV3Lmh0bVcDc3BjQgpjT0q2W2MdkYldUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW44NUBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAACg~) that reaches more than 80,000 students. Over the past 30 years, the state-level surveys, conducted anonymously during each odd-numbered year, have helped elucidate the mental health stressors and safety risks for high school students. Each state has its own rationale for opting out, but their withdrawal — when suicides and feelings of hopelessness are up — has caught the attention of school psychologists and federal and state health officials. 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