15 points | by hn198611 小时前
I then fill out my ballot in a privacy area (really just a stand up desk with 2' walls on three sides), put the ballot in the manila folder provided to me with the ballot, walk over to the scanner and insert my ballot.
I then give the manila folder to another nice person stationed by the scanners.
What's more, elections are run at the county level and staffed by folks who live in that county. As such, poll workers are your neighbors.
I suggest you go and work at the polls. They'll even pay you (not all that much, but not nothing either). If you do so, I expect you won't rant online about the vanishingly small amount of voter fraud that actually happens.
The Heritage Foundation has helpfully compiled a list[0] of known voter fraud. They've found ~1600 proven cases of voter fraud since they started cataloging such things in 1979. Since then, more than 1.5 billion votes have been cast in the United States.
1600 fraudulent votes out of 1.5 billion is a fraud rate of 0.0000010666%.
And even if there are 100 times as many cases of voter fraud as the Heritage Foundation has documented, that still only 0.00010666%.
I'd note that there are 3500+ elections (since elections are administered by county) every election cycle. As such, even if there have been 100 times more fraud than documented, that's still only 160,000 votes across ~23 election cycles * 3500+ elections. That's somewhere around two or three fraudulent votes per election.
Given how our elections are administered (there are folks onsite representing every candidate at every polling site and counting center in all 3500+ elections) and the vanishingly small amount of fraud, it's pretty clear that our elections are free, fair and transparent.
Please educate yourself. Go and work the polls with your neighbors. Seriously.
I’m also not sure why it matters that poll workers are from the same county - that doesn’t make elections secure. People in my county aren’t “neighbors” - I doubt most people would call every random person within 100 miles a “neighbor”. Even if they were, what would that prove?
> it's pretty clear that our elections are free, fair and transparent
How can you prove it though? What I see is many steps that require trust in other humans. Not real verifiable elections.
I’m curious what your thoughts are on steps like voter ID to improve election integrity. To me it seems like an obvious and necessary step, and the resistance to it seems suspicious.
So far the only real problems have been insane republicans burning ballot boxes. And that one is a real problem not made up.
They are the only party thay would benefit from this action. Qui bono?
I guess you can call those technicalities, but more accurately they were trying to use the court system to wage politics and the courts both liberal and conservative all looked at what was filed and said they were absurd and baseless.
I'm not going to put any links here to avoid steering too far into politics, but I'd recommend looking up the comments many judges made about those "cases" and the lawyers presenting them.