<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">(copying this, not original with me:  an important issue). </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Car right to repair is on the ballot again. This time about access to car telematics data. Here is more information about the ballot question..</span><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Ballot questions</span><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.sec.state.ma.us/ele/elepdf/IFV_2020.pdf" target="_blank" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">https://www.sec.state.ma.us/ele/elepdf/IFV_2020.pdf</a><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Making sense of Question 1, the return of the Massachusetts right-to-repair debate</span><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.boston.com/news/politics/2020/09/29/massachusetts-question-1-right-to-repair-2020-ballot-measure/" target="_blank" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">https://www.boston.com/news/politics/2020/09/29/massachusetts-question-1-right-to-repair-2020-ballot-measure/</a><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Mass. has been pummeled by ads on Question 1. They veer into exaggeration and ‘fearmongering,’ experts say</span><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/09/21/metro/massachusetts-has-been-pummeled-by-ads-about-question-1-they-veer-into-exaggeration-fear-mongering-experts-say/" target="_blank" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/09/21/metro/massachusetts-has-been-pummeled-by-ads-about-question-1-they-veer-into-exaggeration-fear-mongering-experts-say/</a><br clear="all"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Stay sane, keep washing those hands, and practice social solidarity as well as physical distancing,</font></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Jonathan</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Jonathan Coopersmith</span><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Professor</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Department of History</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Texas A&amp;M University</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">College Station, TX  77843-4236</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">979.291.2925 (cell)</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">979.862.4314 (fax)</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><b>Vote early (not often), and help others vote</b>: </font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"> </span><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/10/a-citizens-guide-to-defending-the-election/616574/" style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(149,79,114)" target="_blank">https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/10/a-citizens-guide-to-defending-the-election/616574/</a></div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:medium"></span><div><br></div><div>Engineering elections:  <a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/telecom/security/engineering-principles-us-election" target="_blank">https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/telecom/security/engineering-principles-us-election</a></div><div><br></div><div>Racial disparities in waiting to vote:  <a href="https://theconversation.com/it-takes-a-long-time-to-vote-141267" target="_blank">https://theconversation.com/it-takes-a-long-time-to-vote-141267</a></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><i>FAXED.  The Rise and Fall of the Fax Machine</i> (Johns Hopkins University Press) </font><br></div><div><br><br><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>