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Day 32 cont 🗳️⚔️🤜🤛👊

As the election gets closer, #extremism and #conflict is happening at polling booths with unruly candidate, party members and constituants.

“A barrage of #complaints about #threatening and #aggressive #behaviour at polling booths has fuelled tension in Australia’s most hotly #contested #electorates and prompted the #ElectoralCommission to warn #candidates in marginal seats that such behaviour would discourage #voters

#AusPol <archive.md/5KgGv> / <smh.com.au/politics/federal/th> (paywall)

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richard.rathe.org/2020/contest

Does this map look familiar? "1876 #US #presidential #election #contested #states

"#Tilden clearly won the popular vote, but the electoral vote as contested in four states for various reasons. Ironically (from today’s perspective) the Republicans accused the Democrats of suppressing the vote of African Americans in the South."

"The upshot of all this was the #CompromiseOf1877, an informal bit of horse-trading by #Congress to give the majority of electoral votes to #Hayes in return for the withdrawal of federal troops protecting the rights of former slaves in the South, thus ending #Reconstruction and paving the way for the #JimCrow era to begin."

A Dark Day for America, Let's Not Allow a Repeat!