I have been saying for a while now that elections need to be audited. You need to take one randomly chosen county in each State and verify that all the ballots are valid, and do this in each election.
The Left says, in effect, “you have not PROVEN, yet, that we are cheating, so we must not be.” But what form would that proof take? Could or should it be stronger than locking out observers when the counting is happening for a closely contested election? People showing up with suitcases full of God knows what–most likely fraudulent ballots–and waltzing straight into secured ballot rooms?
Most professional Accountants know their jobs. They follow procedures and processes. Most of the time, everything they do is fine. But most companies have their books audited each and every year. Why? Fraud does happen. Mistakes happen. It helps to get a second set of eyes on the core of your business.
Elections are the soul of democracy. Their integrity should be sacred. If there is even a WHIFF of impropriety, we need to validate the whole process.
And the politics of this is obvious. Democrats for many years have been the cheaters. There was probably a time long ago when Republicans cheated too, but there has been no reason to think that has been going on for 60 years or more. I would think it would have been more like in the 20’s in city and State elections, to counter the Tammany Hall’s of our country.
My vote is that any group of counters who won’t allow inspection and surveillance, should have their whole crop of ballots declared for the person they are obviously working against, in this case Donald Trump. If we did that in a couple of elections, they would straighten up and fly right.
As things stand, if fraud on this scale is allowed, why would it not be larger next time? Why would it not become a regular feature of our electoral landscape? I can’t see why it would not, and self evidently we have NO WAY OF KNOWING IF THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR MANY YEARS.
Again: we need to hire accounting firms to go through and validate small randomly chosen samples for EVERY Election, and we need more careful validation when there is suspected–fairly open would be the words I would use–fraud, as in Milwaukee and Detroit.
To do less is to over some time period risk violence. With Trump our future is good. With Biden, we are looking at masks and economic decline. If Biden is declared the winner, I literally expect several projects I have been anticipating to cancel. Companies will start holding on to their money again. The confidence will be gone. At this time, after this 7-8 month assault on our economy, that would and will be devastating. At some point, the guns will come out. It is inevitable.