Making Sure Your Vote Counts

The Convention is over. The electorate is energized. The grunt work of campaigning now kicks into high gear. Yet despite the polls moving steadily in the Harris-Walz favor, there’s an additional worry that now comes into focus.

Between Nov. 8, 2020 (Election Day) and Jan. 20, 2021 (Inauguration Day), the most notable — and most dangerous — event was undoubtedly the coup attempt on Jan. 6, 2021. For the first time in our nation’s history, a group of armed insurrectionists broke into our nation’s capitol and attempted to prevent the certification of a duly held election. But that was merely the culmination of a long string of election-related events intended to subvert a legal and secure election.

The promise of American democracy has been dependent on the ability for every citizen over the age of 18 to participate in how we are governed through the electoral process — in short, the right to vote and to have that vote counted. But the Republican party for years has worked systemat…