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ELECTION 2020 ROUNDUP
The election of 2020 was an enormous challenge for all Americas. Voters turned out in record numbers, during a pandemic, braving bad weather and unacceptably long lines. Elections officials and poll volunteers risked their health and safety to ensure citizen’s voices were heard. The NEDC worked with allies around the country to help secure voting systems and protect voter safety.
We want to thank everyone who helped with these efforts.
OPERATION VOTE SAFE
The NEDC gave our heartfelt support and partnership to Business for America’s project: Operation Vote Safe. We estimate that well over two million dollars in value was donated to dozens of state voting jurisdictions for poll workers, and to NGOs in over 30 cities and First Nations reservations. We wish to gratefully acknowledge the socially responsible business community for their tremendous contribution of over 240,000 masks, 30,000 face guards, and tens of thousands of gloves, disinfectant, sneeze shields, ballot drop boxes, water and power bars, and more.
We very much appreciate the support given the project by the Leadership Conference, the Urban League, Native Votes, The Transformative Justice Coalition, NAACP local chapters, and dozens of churches and local GOTV groups. We are incredibly grateful to Craig Newmark for his generous support for this endeavor and for his participation.
THE CREATIVE ARTS COUNCIL
An A-list team of celebrities, artists, influencers helped raise public awareness of urgent election security and health issues.
We want to thank Glenn Close, Alec Baldwin, Sterling Brown, Yvette Nicole Brown, Alan Cumming, Deborah Messing, and many more who created video social media content to help us protect the 2020 election.
Our Statement on the November 2020 Election and January 6, 2021 Coup Attempt
The National Election Defense Coalition is committed to non-partisan support of democracy and our nation’s electoral systems and institutions. We do not support any use of the issue of election integrity to manipulate and distort public opinion for partisan gains or acts of violence.
While we have long been among the most vocal critics of the privatized system of electronic vote counting, we see no evidence of the QAnon conspiracy theory that Donald Trump lost due to widespread electronic fraud by Dominion voting systems. We base this statement on the vast majority of pre-election polls that predicted a Trump loss by significant margins, and the unprecedented robust post-election audits in vulnerable states where NEDC and other election security advocates have been working for months and years leading up to 2020.
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Paper Ballots Played a Key Role in Defending the Integrity of the 2020 Election
By Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman, Truthout December 13, 2020
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