Dissecting a Dirty Election
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My strongest impression from the U.S.A.'s 2020 general election is that the process by which we record and count votes is an unholy mess, wide open to fraud. Counting was suspended for hours without explanation; great tranches of mail-in votes appeared out of nowhere; vote monitors were denied access; counting continued for days. We are a First World nation with a Third World voting system.
In fact may even be a slight on the Third World. India, which has four times our population but only one-eighth our per capita GDP, with vast regional differences in language and religion, held a general election last year. The final tally of the 614 million votes cast began at 8 a.m. on May 23rd; results followed just hours later.
"Voting systems," I should have said, in the plural, since the methods of recording and counting vary from state to state, as prescribed by Article I, Section 4 of the Constitution … …
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[Read the entire article in the December 2020 issue of Chronicles.]