Faults Found in U.S. Election Preparedness

Foreign observers who watched election preparations in the United States have concluded that there’s plenty of room for improvement. Among the changes they recommend: public financing of elections.

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Among their recommendations:

_Secretaries of state and other election administrators should be nonpartisan;

_Touchscreen voting machines should produce paper records;

_Convicted felons who have served their time should automatically have their voting rights restored, which does not happen in seven states;

_Public financing of elections should be adopted.

I don’t have a problem with nonpartisan SoS’s (although one wonders if such a thing actually exists), and we already know about the paper receipt issue, but what in the world does public financing of elections have to do with electoral preparedness?