Posted on 05/22/2021 8:22:19 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
In 1999, Tim Meisburger helped Indonesia run its first open election in almost half a century.
“The people were very distrustful of the process because in the past the party in power rigged elections to get the outcome they wanted,” Meisburger, former Director of Democracy and Governance at the U.S. Agency for International Development, explained. The United States helped fund more than 500,000 election observers across the country to prevent voter fraud and ballot tampering.
“Because of that scrutiny, the elections were fair and honest,” Meisburger added.
Today, Meisburger is trying to get America to adopt the same election integrity measures we encourage other countries to use to build confidence in their elections....
While a growing number of Republican-led states are passing election reforms measures, left-leaning groups and Democrat lawmakers are actively fighting against any attempt to improve transparency and integrity in our elections....
Meisburger has found that the “black voting boxes” such as the ones Dominion Voting Systems sold to states election boards lead to trust issues. “When ballots are not counted at the polling site in full view of the poll watchers, we have the problem of mysterious ballots showing up in the middle of the night with no oversite,” explained Meisberger. “In every single case, when we lost sight of the ballots, it provided an opening for people to claim malpractice and cheating. Paper ballots counted at the polling site is the most secure way to have an election. And it’s also the most transparent and creates confidence in the result.
In a recent guest column in American Greatness, Meisburger wrote, “The vast majority of voters should vote in person on Election Day, in what should be viewed as a national celebration of democracy. If this requires making Election Day a national holiday, that should be considered....
(Excerpt) Read more at theohiostar.com ...
I would say America is “ignoring” election integrity. The rat-controlled congress is doing everything it can to actively stamp it out.
That just makes me think those foreign elections were rigged.
True. But given that the Left likes to criticize our backwardness, it could be fun to point out how backward we are when it comes to electoral integrity.
We all have the same bleeping voting machines.
“Ignoring It [election integrity] at Home”???
The author is nuts. We have spent tens of millions, probably hundreds of millions of dollars intentionally making our elections as unreliable and open to fraud as possible.
Vote rigging: How to spot the tell-tale signs
Published2 September 2016
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-37243190
The Swamp will gladly fund 500,000 Democrat election observers in the US.
There are analytic methods that can ID probable election fraud.
U.S. Elections don’t provide enough info to do the analytics.
. yeah, like that unauthorized $50 million the Obozo sent to Israel to defeat Netanyahu
Now we know how people living in totalitarian hellholes felt... We can thank the commie/democrat scum for that piece of enlightenment...
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