Russ J Rampton
@RussJRampton
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Candidate for Utah County Clerk 2026. Seeking the nomination of the Forward Party. Securing your rights through transparent processes and public service.
Provo, Utah
Joined February 2022
I’ll be actively campaigning from now through November 2026. I can’t do this alone; I need your support. Modest, monthly donations will fund the campaign through election day: https://t.co/qx4XsR9fnu
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Still the best checklist for analyzing future plans that I’m aware of.
Thinking about the time our high school English teacher gave us a poem to analyse When we finished she told us it was Donald Rumsfeld’s WMD press conference, and that was the class
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To all who celebrate:
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I read a lot of Habermas as a graduate student. I’m a fan of the simpler “use your words” but this passage is powerful:
Jurgen Habermas, one of the world's greatest philosophers, passed away today. These words are my north star. "If any trace of utopianism remains in me, it lies solely in the belief that democracy—and public debate in its optimal forms—has the capacity to cut the Gordian knot of
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Clerk Davidson makes a claim that the LG office is withholding data from the Counties. I ask him what specific data he doesn’t have. He is unable or unwilling to answer. Another example of claims without evidence.
With the arguments presented in this article, the LG's office should not be preforming citizenship audits with the county voter roll data, the county clerks should, but the LG's Office will not give the necessary data to the county clerks to perform them.
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Policy needs to be based on empirical evidence and data. Not based in party loyalties and vibes.
“Some of the best decisions lawmakers made this year came when they stopped, listened, considered and killed or ignored proposed legislation that was based on bad ideas or incorrect information,” writes The Salt Lake Tribune editorial board.
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Voter registration forms are processed bey elections officials before anyone is actually registered and they check for things like this. Including people who “register to vote” when applying for, renewing, or updating a driver license.
WOW 🚨 An “unnamed foundation” caught paying to register voters WITH TAXPAYER DOLLARS “Minnesota voter fraud case — 500 to 600 fraudulent voter registration applications were submitted to election officials in offices in 13 Minnesota counties” They were all fake addresses and
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Seeing the shadow of a monster can be scary, but the shadow is cast by a jacket thrown over a chair. The fear is real. The monster is not. You don’t fight the non-existent monster. You turn on the lights and reveal the truth. Most Utahns trust our current system.
To those who don’t understand why many Americans distrust vote-by-mail: Perception matters. You can tell people the system is secure all day long, but if ballots are mailed out, sit in mailboxes, move through multiple hands, and get counted days or weeks later… people are
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I don’t know all the answers to the current polarization in our state and federal legislative branches, but this sure looks like one: @FWDUtah
It turns out our first third-party legislator in who knows how long was genuinely moderate. When I calculate ideology scores, Sen. Buss lands right in the middle @FWDUtah (10/11)
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So if attestation is sufficient - and that is what we have now - why do we need the SAVE act? If the solution is for each state to solve the problem themselves, how is this not an unfounded mandate? Bad solution in search of a significant problem.
As I make clear here, no U.S. citizen will be left without free access to voter registration when it comes to voting under the SAVE AMERICA Act https://t.co/OacdSJfxAq
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Challenge reversed: Show me how the in-person voting method is preventing fraud. Specifically, how does it prevent the use of fake IDs and how do you audit the verification of IDs presented in person. I’ve used VBM for over a decade, repeated audits show negligible fraud.
@elonmusk The one thing I always hear is voting method X, Y or Z is safe and secure, yet I have never seen anyone explain how that it. If it is then show me how it is blocking fraud. Until then it should only be in person on paper with id and proof of citizenship when registering.
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How the information revolution first happened, and how it is happening again. If you know the pattern; you know what's coming next...
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Great question: And if the answer depends on whose side you’re on, you aren’t thinking about this correctly.
How is paying for postage different than paying for signature collectors?
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About 100 people hand counting just over 3,000 ballots, and they can’t meet the deadline. This is a concept that doesn’t scale.
Scoop from @NataliaECG: After hand-counting primary ballots, Republicans in Calhoun County, TX, failed to submit results to the county within 24 hours of polls closing, a violation of state law.
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They were so busy trying to decide if they COULD do it, they never bothered to ask if they SHOULD do it. Spoiler Alert: They shouldn’t have done it.
NEW: Over 150k Texans this week faced deliberate voting barriers driven by Republicans’ decision to switch to precinct-only polling places. Why did Tuesday’s primaries descend into chaos and punish so many voters? As one GOP official behind the effort put it: “Because we can.”
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Not only do you get to choose who you vote for, you get to choose how you vote. And the Utah State Senate preserved your right to choose from multiple ways to return the ballot mailed to you.
Choo-Choo Choose how you want to vote. Opt in to vote by-mail or voting in -person. Visit: https://t.co/yxHIfdkFMI for online and https://t.co/NleWepX6Lf for paper. #utpol #weberelections #webercounty #utahelections #electionsutah #voterregistration #utahvoter #utah
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Institutional responsibility over partisan loyalty:
"Rhetoric does not constrain presidential power. Constitutional checks and balances do. It is precisely the erosion of these critical checks and balances – most notably Congressional oversight – that has allowed recent presidents of both parties to wield military force with
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This is why you shouldn’t let “vibes” replace empirical data when making decisions about election administration.
They knew the countywide model worked. They killed it anyway. When a foreseeable change produces hundreds turned away, "we announced it in January" is an explanation. It is not an excuse.
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Here is the result of the decision to hand count ballots:
Our reporter @NataliaECG is in Eastland County, TX, where Republicans insisted on hand-counting their primary ballots—and, as a result, are *still counting.*
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This is why a top priority of my campaign is voter education and outreach. It is difficult to trust what you don’t understand. I want all voters to be aware of election processes and to gain the knowledge that will defeat the confusion.
New @DemocracyDocket Op-ed🚨Pam Smith warns election officials are facing unprecedented federal overreach: "they are under pressure unlike anything most of them have ever seen.” And how to fight back: “The antidote to manufactured confusion is knowledge.” https://t.co/j9w8fuUAXx
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The old ways of voting weren’t better. They required inefficient effort from voters to compensate for technology that had yet to be developed. Our current technology has also changed the way we deal with time and distance. Our voting methods should reflect that.
Tonight’s chaos in Dallas County is one of manifestations of election stupidity. There is easy technology to allow voters to show up in person at any voting location. Dallas had previously used that technology. Then election silliness convinced the powers that be that
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