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Letter: National popular vote would protect us from election hacking

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) People arrive to vote early at the Salt Lake County complex for primary election day on Tuesday, June 26, 2018.

 | May 1, 2019, 7:26 p.m.

The Mueller report documents that, in 2016, at least one county computer system in Florida was successfully hacked by Russian operatives. The vote margin for Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton was just over 100,000 votes in that state. That was approximately .07% of the total votes cast nationwide (136 million) in our last presidential election.

It’s not known at this time which Florida county suffered the intrusion, but if the results were sufficient to flip the state’s total electoral votes from one candidate to the other, does it matter at this point?

The critically urgent question that must be addressed before 2020 is: Who do we want to have the greatest influence on our next presidential election: the American people, or a foreign government?

Go to www.nationalpopularvote.com and learn how a national popular vote for president is 70% of the way to making the national popular vote the vote that elects the holder our one national office without a constitutional amendment.

Bunnie Keen, Salt Lake City

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