When I read the media reports about the most recent
election, and the seemingly difficult task that Election Supervisors are having
counting the ballots, I must ask; is it Fraud or just Incompetence?
Look! The problem isn’t
the Russians or any other outside influence.
The problem is the Supervisors and Party operatives who believe that the
American Voter is incapable of understanding the issues or that the voting process is simple
and has little latitude to become this controversial.
Problem: You have
two candidates for an election. There
are X number of people voting. Candidate
#1 receives Y number of votes and Candidate #2 receives Z number of votes. How do
you determine the winner of the election?
Answer: Count
the damn ballots! The ballots will tell you which candidate to
credit the number of votes. If you can’t
count, which seems to be the problem, stack the ballots in two piles. Place each ballot in the appropriate pile –
that means if the ballot is marked for candidate #1, put it in candidate #1’s
pile. If the ballot is marked for
candidate #2, put it in candidate #2’s pile.
The one with the bigger pile
wins!
There are no reasons to find boxes of ballots in the back of
a returned rental car, or in a teacher’s classroom! Do you
honestly believe that the voters believe that either of these events are accidental?
Here’s another suggestion:
In each election there are Election Supervisors (sometimes with
different titles). Before letting anyone oversee an election, give them a Civics
and Math test, to be certain they understand the process and can count – at least
to 100. (ballots can be stacked in multiples of 100…no wait - that’s too
difficult, maybe make sure they can count to 10).
There is no reason that elections can’t be settled by a
simple count of legitimate ballots…it’s not Rocket Science.
Fraud or incompetence? YES!
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