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No more needs to be said. The conclusion is obvious.
However, in a related matter, I will say this. A few days after the election, I had a brief conversation with a friend who is a liberal.
I was making the point that to have truly honest and transparent elections, we need to have one-day voting, paper ballots, hand counting of ballots with poll watchers literally looking over the counters’ shoulders, photo identification, and proof of citizenship.
Moreover, I asserted, the results need to be tabulated with no scanning machines or computers of any sort, and announced on the evening of the day of the election.
My friend scoffed and retorted that our country is far too big and too large a population to do the election without computers or machine scanning and counting of ballots. Just look at our own county, James, she added, there is no way we can get our ballots all counted by hand and get it done in a few hours.
Sure, we can, I said. All we need to do is divide into smaller areas. Everyone should vote in their own precinct. The ballots should be counted in our own precinct, recorded publicly, and then reported up the ladder to the county. The results could be transmitted with computer email but only after they are publicly recorded, reported, and published in the precinct.
The county Board of Elections then records the results in their books (under supervision of watchers). They then report our county results up the ladder to the state Board of Elections.
In that way, no cheating is possible. If there are too many voters in a precinct and counting takes too long, then it is a very simple matter to divide precincts so that it is small enough to get the job done the same day.
I further explained the system of the ancient Hebrew republic, where there were captains of tens, fifties, hundreds, and thousands, etc. So if we only had ten households in a precinct, how long would it take the residents to vote, to hand count the ballots, etc. It could be easily accomplished.
As she listened to the logic, I continued by pointing out that France had just this past year gone back to that system and with about 40 million voters had held their election in just that manner I described and they announced the results by 10 p.m.
Furthermore, I added, Florida has about 21 million voters and they finished counting ballots in about three hours. In contrast, Arizona has only 1/3 of that number—about 7 million voters—and they were still counting ballots for the Kari Lake-Gallegos Senatorial contest four days later.
Sure makes me suspicious of some “irregularities” going on there! It was evident to me that my friend had run out of arguments, so I tried to leave it on a light note. We’ll see how that affects our friendship next time I see her.
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