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U.S. elections repaired or fixed.

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In the year 2000, a legal dispute over the failure of Florida's voting machinery led to the selection of President George W. Bush by the U.S. Supreme Court. Other results included a crisis of confidence in America's electoral process and a lot of changes. Exactly one year ago today, in another presidential election, some of those changes were called into question, and there were echoes last night.

In this last week before To the Point goes from daily radio to podcast only, we'll look at what's

happened since the program started 17 years ago. We'll hear about the security of voting machines,

voter ID, gerrymandering, and what politicians like to call the sacred right of every American to cast a ballot.

First, here's the news.

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Hello again, Marvin. I'll name back with To The Poit. This program began in the year 2000, with coverage of the contested election of President George W. Bush.

Changes in the following 17 years were supposed to improve the integrity of the electoral process is the guarantee that every American has the right to vote more or less a reality than it was then.

Versus News Update. Last night saw the first major statewide election since Donald Trump

became president one year ago. In New Jersey and in Virginia, especially in other states as well, Democrats scored

big victories. Even some Republicans are saying the difference was President Trump. Here's Virginia

Republican Congressman Scott Taylor. I support the president, not blindly. If I agree with them,

I say it. If I don't, I don't. And I think that last night was a, was a referendum.

I don't think there's any way that you can look at it in a different way.

Kyle Condick is managing editor for Sabatoos, Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia's Center for

Politics. Good to have you back on our program. Thanks for having me. So a Democratic sweep,

would you call it, nationwide?

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