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Email ShareThis  AFT Resolutions   WHEREAS, it is the
responsibility of a democratic government to ensure that free
and fair elections upon which a democracy depends are beyond
reproach; and   WHEREAS, private corporations are unsuited for
this task because of the vested interests of people behind the
corporate veil and the profit motive; and  WHEREAS, corporations
are compromised by partisan conflicts of interest due to
campaign giving; and  WHEREAS, corporations doing public work
often limit public access to their work and claim that systems
built with public funds are proprietary; and  WHEREAS, private
corporations are less accountable than public institutions in
terms of protecting citizens personal data; and  WHEREAS, the
administration of voter registration and of elections by
corporations increases the opportunity for electoral fraud and
reduces peoples confidence in elections:  RESOLVED, that the
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