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Delayed Results Are Killing Americans’ Trust In Elections: Bring Back 'Election Day' - not 'Election Weeks'
The Federalist ^
| 11/11/2022
| Jordan Boyd
Posted on 11/11/2022 9:20:56 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Democrats tried to frame the 2022 midterms as a referendum on Republicans, whom they’ve branded a “threat to democracy,” but the real threat to our nation is how little Americans can trust elections that drag on for days or weeks.
Many Americans already have a hard time believing that although nearly 75 percent of voters think the country is on the wrong track, they chose to keep many of the same crises-causing candidates. But assuming that discrepancy can be explained by the Democrats’ get-out-the-vote machine and other factors, Americans have bigger doubts — namely that three days after polls closed, voters still don’t know who controls the House of Representatives and the Senate, nor who will govern several western states. Thanks to complications on Nov. 8 and hundreds of thousands of mail-in ballots to tabulate, Arizona and Nevada aren’t expected to deliver their final tabulations until next week.
Confidence in our nation’s elections is at an all-time low. Yet swing states with key races now routinely prolong counting for days even though polling strongly suggests that severely undermines the public’s trust in elections.
Some states have grown so comfortable with this system that they’ve started to preemptively announce delays, with corporate media going so far as to characterize early Republican leads as a “red mirage” before vote counts even started.
“It’s going to take a few days,” Pennsylvania’s Acting Secretary of State Leigh M. Chapman said at a press conference before Election Day. “It doesn’t mean anything nefarious is happening.”
Corporate media largely frame this overall decline in trust as a Republican issue, saying it stems from former President Donald Trump’s unjustified anger over the 2020 election, which they say — despite record turnout, mass mail-in balloting, vote delays, and a slew of irregularities in multiple tipping-point states — was the freest and most fair election the country has ever had. But the truth is, voters on both sides of the political aisle despise anxiously awaiting tabulation because they know it opens the door for problems and meddling.
Even if this election were as safe and secure as they claim, the fact that it now takes days and possibly weeks to learn who will control the halls of power for the next few years sows reasonable doubt in the minds of Americans. Without a principled and structured system for quick, accurate calculation, confidence in elections plummets.
Voters want to know, for instance, how the largest county in the battleground state of Arizona (and the fourth most-populous county in the country) — where the officeholder in charge of running elections is at the top of the Democrats’ gubernatorial ticket — can be rife with problems in election after election. Is an election “rigged” if, after weeks of mail-in balloting, some Election Day voters — which skew largely Republican — are prevented from casting their votes? And what does it do for election integrity when only a few thousand votes trickle in each day following an election, with no clear answer as to why it’s taking so long or when the final tally can be expected? How does a polling place in the swing state of Pennsylvania run out of paper on Election Day? These are valid questions, not conspiracy theories, and they’re the types of concerns that shatter voter confidence.
Corporate media, which are guilty of delaying race calls for no good reason, want to blame the nation’s decentralized election systems for the holdup. That doesn’t work, however, when voters recall that Americans in decades past knew who the winners were before their heads hit the pillow at night.
It is still possible to determine victories on Election Day. Not only do most civilized countries manage to tabulate votes in a reasonable timeframe, but so do many large states. For instance, after entering the national spotlight for discrepancies about counting during the extremely narrow 2000 presidential election, Florida dedicated two decades of work to building and fine-tuning a safe, effective election system that gives voters the results on the same night.
For Americans to trust democracy, which politicians and the corporate media claim is under fire, states must embrace election systems that yield rapid and accurate results and are worthy of voters’ trust.
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bloggers; captainobvious; delays; elections
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To: SeekAndFind
Yeah… ya’ think you genius retards?
To: PGR88
Yes, no more mass mailing of ballots to all and sundry. Of a voter is genuinely absent, he/she must order a ballot ahead of time. But also provide adequate facilities for in-person voting on game day. Four hour lines at polling places are inexcusable. They discourage the most responsible citizens from voting, in fact.
Personally I vote early, because with my mobility handicap even five minutes standing in line is impossible. Without that option, a genuine medical disability should qualify for an absentee ballot.
To: SeekAndFind
Just don’t federalize elections, in the name of efficiency. That’s the unconstitutional Rat route. Also, let’s avoid the siren song of paperless technology. That’s how we got Dominion.
The correct way to run elections is what Florida just did. That should be the model for every state.
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posted on
11/11/2022 10:42:36 PM PST
by
rfp1234
(Comitia asinorum et rhinocerorum delenda sunt.)
To: SeekAndFind
Democrats don’t care if you like them or trust them. All they want is power, and they will do anything to get it. Anything at all.
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posted on
11/11/2022 10:49:09 PM PST
by
Ronin
(White privilege is not having to fake your own hate crimes. (HT: CrappieLuck) and )
To: SeekAndFind; All
Wanna stop this voter fraud crap?
Restore walk in voting with Voter ID with a signature.
Mail in ballots should be notarized with a notary stamp and signature.
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posted on
11/11/2022 10:57:04 PM PST
by
Cobra64
(Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
To: SeekAndFind
the voters are going to have to take a lot more pain
before they say
this aint right
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posted on
11/11/2022 11:03:21 PM PST
by
joshua c
(to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
To: Cobra64; SeekAndFind
Restore walk in voting with Voter ID with a signature. They tried to pull this so-called "Voter's Choice Act" in my county, "More Days to Vote, More Ways to Vote."
Nonsense.
I voted in person on Election Day. They haven't taken away in-person "accessible voting locations" yet, though they are few and far between. The location was pretty cramped, no "social distancing," so they might as well bring back the old in-person voting at every third firehouse or church hall or school auditorium.
One of the first things the poll workers asked was "are you here to vote in person?" (I guess as opposed to dropping off a completed ballot). She seemed a bit incredulous that I would be voting in person, I do hope she did not mean it as a challenge to me. >:(
When I stepped inside, the other poll worker (behind a plastic shield -- yes they made us all wear masks inside!) immediately said "No you don't have to show ID" before I had a chance to get mine out.
Still I am glad to have voted in person, there is something very refreshing to see neighbors on their way to or from the polling location, we smile and greet each other as like-minded people do.
To: SeekAndFind
after “the chsd thing”, I have held all elections suspect, whether Californian poke the paper, New York machines, Oregon voting paper ballots put into collection boxes, or Louisiana’s machines, and now, my mail in ballots via USPS.
the continuing saga of “ we found bad machines” by company x , post election, and for the next election again, company x is supplying machines!!!
weii, duh!!
To: SeekAndFind
Trust is not being killed.
Trust was killed a long, long time ago.
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posted on
11/12/2022 12:01:39 AM PST
by
Iron Munro
(Liberalism is the philosophy of sniveling brats. - P.J. ORourke)
To: SeekAndFind
To: SeekAndFind
It will never change. The Democrats want it this way. And they rule.
To: SeekAndFind
But, this is how they felony vote fraud to win elections.
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posted on
11/12/2022 12:31:31 AM PST
by
exnavy
(Grow your faith, and have the courage to use it.)
To: toddausauras
You can count Denver right away… but the much smaller population of her district is extremely complicated!
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posted on
11/12/2022 12:55:15 AM PST
by
DesertRhino
(Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
To: SeekAndFind
Amazing that big red states like Florida and Texas can complete their election counts by the end of election night.
But then again.. they’re red states for a reason.
To: SeekAndFind
Democrats cheat and Americans suffer for it
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posted on
11/12/2022 2:00:59 AM PST
by
38special
(I should've said something earlier)
To: SeekAndFind
I'll just drop this here...
Foster v. Love, 522 U.S. 67 (1997)
Held: Louisiana's statute conflicts with federal law to the extent that it is applied to select a congressional candidate in October. Pp. 71-74.
(a) The issue here is a narrow one turning entirely on the meaning of the state and federal statutes. There is no colorable argument that § 7 goes beyond the ample limits of the Elections Clause's grant of authority to Congress. In speaking of "the election" of a Senator or Representative, the federal statutes plainly refer to the combined actions of voters and officials meant to make the final selection of an officeholder; and by establishing "the day" on which these actions must take place, the statutes simply regulate the time of the election, a matter on which the Constitution explicitly gives Congress the final say. Pp. 71-722 U.S.C. United States Code, 1996 Edition Title 2 - THE CONGRESS CHAPTER 1 - ELECTION OF SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES
§ 7. Time of election
The Tuesday next after the 1st Monday in November, in every even numbered year, is established as the day for the election, in each of the States and Territories of the United States, of Representatives and Delegates to the Congress commencing on the 3d day of January next thereafter.
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posted on
11/12/2022 2:24:59 AM PST
by
philman_36
(Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
To: cdnerds
They will find every vote they need "Find"??? No. FABRICATE.
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posted on
11/12/2022 2:29:29 AM PST
by
NorthMountain
(... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
To: Terry L Smith
after “the chsd thing”...It's all been a coordinated push to get to the corrupt machines of today.
Hegelian dialectic - thesis, antithesis, synthesis
Hegelian Dialectics: The Devil’s Winning Tool
The Hegelian system is described as follows:
“It was Hegel’s view that all things unfold in a continuing evolutionary process whereby each idea or quality (the THESIS) inevitably brings forth its opposite (the ANTITHESIS). From that interaction, a third state emerges in which the opposites are integrated, overcome, and fulfilled in a richer and higher SYNTHESIS. This synthesis then becomes the basis for another dialectical process of opposition and synthesis. Hegel believed that the creative stress of opposing positions was essential for developing higher states of consciousness. In the moment of synthesis, the opposites are both preserved and transcended, negated and fulfilled” (Corinne McLaughlin and Gordon Davidson, Spiritual Politics, 1994, p. 88). Hegel believed that this process has a life of its own, in an evolutionary sense, but since the days of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels it has been used as a guided process toward a desired end.
Trust us, the new voting machines and proprietary software are just perfect for today's world. /liberal narrative
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posted on
11/12/2022 2:51:09 AM PST
by
philman_36
(Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
And it only took twenty odd years to accomplish.
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posted on
11/12/2022 2:53:41 AM PST
by
philman_36
(Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
To: SeekAndFind
I do not trust any democrat run city as far as elections. They all cheat and think they are doing the right thing by cheating.
Remember, these are the people who support killing babies, stealing money thru taxes, demand reparations, demand affirmative action or special treatment etc. etc.
Democrats, and I mean every single voter, are the enemy of freedom. But many republicans are not much better.
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posted on
11/12/2022 3:22:29 AM PST
by
joma89
(Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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