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From the Ted Talk by Tiana Epps-Johnson: An election redesign to restore trust in US democracy

Unscramble the Blue Letters


This year-round work is hard. And it's often spuer thankless. And the last two years have been some of the worst. Election officials who srvee millions of vtores currently lack the basic technology that they need to reliably do their work. It either doesn’t exist, or it’s shockingly odetuatd. In the year 2020, we supported a samll New England town replace their hand canrk ballot box that they had been using since the early 1900s to count ballots. One was leirlalty held together by duct tape. Even worse, the people that underpin our voting process, the election officials, are currently under attack. In exchange for being outspoken about the irgtneity of the process that they managed in 2020, which, by the way, turned out to be our highest turnout election in the US in over a century and the most srecue election ever administered in our history, according to our national security community --

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This year-round work is hard. And it's often _____ thankless. And the last two years have been some of the worst. Election officials who _____ millions of ______ currently lack the basic technology that they need to reliably do their work. It either doesn’t exist, or it’s shockingly ________. In the year 2020, we supported a _____ New England town replace their hand _____ ballot box that they had been using since the early 1900s to count ballots. One was _________ held together by duct tape. Even worse, the people that underpin our voting process, the election officials, are currently under attack. In exchange for being outspoken about the _________ of the process that they managed in 2020, which, by the way, turned out to be our highest turnout election in the US in over a century and the most ______ election ever administered in our history, according to our national security community --

Solution


  1. voters
  2. outdated
  3. literally
  4. secure
  5. serve
  6. integrity
  7. super
  8. crank
  9. small

Original Text


This year-round work is hard. And it's often super thankless. And the last two years have been some of the worst. Election officials who serve millions of voters currently lack the basic technology that they need to reliably do their work. It either doesn’t exist, or it’s shockingly outdated. In the year 2020, we supported a small New England town replace their hand crank ballot box that they had been using since the early 1900s to count ballots. One was literally held together by duct tape. Even worse, the people that underpin our voting process, the election officials, are currently under attack. In exchange for being outspoken about the integrity of the process that they managed in 2020, which, by the way, turned out to be our highest turnout election in the US in over a century and the most secure election ever administered in our history, according to our national security community --

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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united states 2
election infrastructure 2
election system 2
count ballots 2
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