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Camden: 2004 Washington election was not — repeat, not — rigged
By Jim Camden
Published: October 26, 2016, 6:01am
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Donald Trump’s claims that the 2016 election may be rigged made me shudder, and not mainly because he was implying the nation’s electoral process was about on par with a banana republic’s.
Primarily, I shuddered in anticipation of the reaction to the story I would write about the views of elections officials in Washington and Idaho, who could be counted on to defend our voting processes.
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