It’s time we contracted privately for third parties to run elections. The people that are running them, the town clerks etc. are members of a union just like the police.
It’s like asking the fox to count the eggs in the hen house. You can’t trust them.
Maybe Iraq can run our elections for us.
We really do need professionals to ensure that an essential process of democracy is flawlessly executed. It's insane, isn't it, that we have hapless volunteers, many first-timers, running polling places, and that only on a sporadic basis, so that training and procedure are nearly completely unpracticed and inept? I've watched these people - good people, no doubt - but completely unsure and untrained because they aren't doing this on a regular basis, and there is mostly no standards on how things are to be done securely. I'm sure an audit would produce an adverse opinion in most cases.