heh heh
Caucuses, where paper ballots are counted by representatives of each candidate, and watched by as many people as can fit, and whose vote totals are matched with the number of attendees, don’t really seem so outrageous.
“Caucuses, where paper ballots are counted by representatives of each candidate, and watched by as many people as can fit, and whose vote totals are matched with the number of attendees, don’t really seem so outrageous.”
I recall one Republican county convention where the balloting dragged on for about an extra four hours well into the night, because the convention officials kept trying to cart off the voting summaries to a place where they could be tallied and the candidate representatives could not all squeeze in and keep a good eye on the counting. There were accusations that the officials kept shuffling the voting reports to confuse everything. You had to hope the person who is defending your candidate in that room is not really a plant representing the other candidate during the candidate. That is another old fashioned ploy that is still in use, particularly with respect to voting precinct judges. A plant pretends to be a Republican for many years, but is in reality a Democrat plant. When the Democrat plant gets to the position of serving as a Republican official, they can go behind closed doors with the Democrat representative and get way with all kinds of election fraud with the balloting.