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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2018
WORLD IN BRIEF
Associated Press
National voting system
faces test on Election Day
ATLANTA — Federal and state officials have
been working for nearly two years to shore up the
nation’s election infrastructure from cyberattacks
by Russians or others seeking to disrupt the vot-
ing process.
It turns out that many of the problems are
closer to home.
Early voting leading up to today’s midterm
election revealed a wide variety of concerns with
voting and registration systems around the coun-
try — from machines that changed voter selec-
tions to registration forms tossed out because of
clerical errors.
Election officials and voting rights groups fear
that voter confidence in the results could be under-
mined if such problems become even more wide-
spread as millions of Americans head to the polls
to decide pivotal races for Congress and governor.
Already there is concern that last-minute court
rulings on voter ID requirements, the handling of
absentee ballots and other issues in a handful of
states will sow confusion among voters and poll
workers.
“We expect poll workers will be overwhelmed,
just as voters are overwhelmed, and there will be
lots of provisional ballots,” said Sara Henderson,
head of Common Cause in Georgia, where vot-
ing-rights groups have been raising numerous
concerns about election security and voter access.
The problems come amid a surge of interest,
with registrations and early-voting turnout run-
ning well ahead of what is typically seen during
a midterm election.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security,
FBI and other federal agencies have opened a
command center to help state and local election
offices with any major problems that arise.
Nationally, some 6,500 poll watchers are being
deployed by a coalition of civil rights and voting
advocacy groups to assist people who encounter
problems at the polls. That is more than double the
number sent to polling places in 2016, while the
number of federal election monitors has declined.
Economic realities
moderate Trump’s
hard line on Iran
WASHINGTON — The Trump adminis-
tration was caught between allies at home and
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The remains of Maj. Brent R. Taylor arrived today at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware.
Utah mayor slain in Afghanistan
urged Americans to vote
DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Delaware — The body of a Utah mayor and Army National
Guard member who urged Americans to vote before he was killed in Afghanistan has been
returned to U.S. soil.
Military officials said 39-year-old North Ogden Mayor Brent Taylor was shot to death Sat-
urday by an Afghan commando he was training, who was then killed by Afghan forces.
Major Taylor had been expecting to return as Mayor Taylor in January. His death leaves
behind his wife, Jennie, and their seven children, ranging from 11 months to 13 years old.
She was there as his remains were returned to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware.
“Brent may have died on Afghan soil, but he died for the success of freedom and democ-
racy in both of our countries,” she said in a statement that referred to her husband’s final post
on Facebook, which urged Americans to exercise their “precious right to vote.”
“It seems only fitting,” her statement said, that her husband “has come home to US soil in a
flag-draped casket on our Election Day.”
Taylor’s post, drawing a connection between democracy abroad and at home, has been seen
and shared thousands of times.
“It was beautiful to see over four million Afghan men and women brave threats and deadly
attacks to vote in Afghanistan’s first parliamentary elections in eight years. The strong turnout,
despite the attacks and challenges, was a success for the long-suffering people of Afghanistan
and for the cause of human freedom,” he wrote.
“As the USA gets ready to vote in our own election next week, I hope everyone back home
exercises their precious right to vote. And that whether the Republicans or the Democrats win,
that we all remember that we have far more as Americans that unites us than divides us. ‘United
we stand, divided we fall.’ God bless America.”
abroad and the reality of global economics as it
reinstated sanctions Monday on Iran, forced to
carve out exemptions for important allies and
back off on measures that could have been even
more punishing for Tehran.
The U.S. granted waivers to allow China
and seven close U.S. partners and allies to con-
tinue importing Iranian crude and other petro-
leum products without penalty, bowing to con-
cerns that a complete end to Iran’s exports would
cause a major spike in world oil prices and cause
other economic disruptions. Trump conceded
that reality on his way to a last-minute campaign
event a day before critical midterm congressional
elections.
“We have the toughest sanctions ever imposed
but on oil we want to go a little bit slower because
I don’t want to drive the oil prices in the world,”
he told reporters. “I could get the Iran oil down to
zero immediately, but it would cause a shock to
the market.”
The newly reinstated sanctions target Iran’s
energy, financial and shipping sectors and are
aimed at forcing Iran to end ballistic missile pro-
gram and end its support for armed movements
throughout the Middle East.
The measures restore all the U.S. sanctions
that had been lifted under the 2015 accord that
gave Iran billions of dollars in sanctions relief in
exchange for curbs on its nuclear program, a deal
that Obama administration critics had argued was
too soft on the Islamic Republic.
In reinstating the measures, the Treasury
Department imposed penalties on more than 700
Iranian and Iranian-linked individuals, entities,
aircraft and vessels. Among those are 50 Iranian
banks and subsidiaries, more than 200 people and
ships, Iran’s state-run airline Iran Air and more
than 65 of its planes.
The sanctions freeze any assets that those tar-
geted have in U.S. jurisdictions and bar Amer-
icans from doing business with them. They will
also affect non-Iranian companies that deal with
sanctioned Iranian firms and officials.
Yet, while the administration seeks to cut off
Iran’s oil revenue, it is allowing Greece, India,
Italy, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Turkey to
continue purchasing Iranian oil as long as they
work to reduce imports to zero.
China dismisses
criticism about mass
detentions of Muslims
GENEVA — China today once again
rejected criticism of its treatment of ethnic Mus-
lims, telling the United Nations that accusa-
tions of rights abuses from some countries were
“politically driven.”
At a regular U.N. review of the country’s human
rights record, China characterized the far west
region of Xinjiang as a former hotbed of extrem-
ism that has been stabilized through “training cen-
ters” which help people gain employable skills.
Former detainees of such centers, on the
other hand, have described the facilities as polit-
ical indoctrination camps where ethnic Uighurs,
Kazakhs and other Muslim minorities are forced
to renounce their faith and swear loyalty to the
ruling Communist Party.
The U.N. has previously said there are cred-
ible reports that as many as 1 million peo-
ple are being held in this form of extrajudicial
detention.
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