Joe Doakes, once of Como Park, emails:

Forty years ago, I volunteered to serve as Election Judge for the 1984 Presidential election. Paper ballots. Hand counted. Two judges verified each ballot.   We had one volunteer election monitor watching us count for a while but he got bored and left early. Yes, it took a while – I remember the sun coming up as we were finishing – but nobody in the room had the slightest doubt the count was accurate and fair.

I remember watching lawyers scrutinize “hanging chads” on television for the 2000 election that even the New York Times finally admitted was accurate and fair.

I remember watching poll workers hang cardboard over the windows so nobody could watch the count in 2020. I still don’t believe that result was accurate or fair.

The key difference is transparency.  Why can’t we supplement eyeballs with technology?  

Hang a camera over every counting table, broadcasting to the internet in real time. The whole world can watch. Why not? What is there to hide?

Joe Doakes

 

Because that would risk delivering the undesired result.  

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