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> Multiple assessors, both from parties and individuals who just want to ensure that everything goes right The story is literally about ballot stuffing at prec
by seoaeu 4y ago
> Multiple assessors, both from parties and individuals who just want to ensure that everything goes right
The story is literally about ballot stuffing at precincts where there weren’t observers like that watching. Which makes the electronic voting part a complete red herring
- sidlls 4y agoAnd 100% of the votes from those precincts without observers should’ve been discarded. The real problem is that we don’t fund elections properly. This sort of thing isn’t a problem in other developed democracies. It’s only one here by design.
- seoaeu 4y agoWhat you’re proposing is that the official in charge of running elections can cut funding to precincts that usually vote for his opponent, and then later invalidate all ballots cast there?
- wholinator2 4y agoI thought that they were simultaneously suggesting that funding be increased in a concrete and not easily reverse way. But I do see your point
- sidlls 4y agoThat's an incredibly uncharitable read of my comment.
- seoaeu 4y agoI wasn't trying to be uncharitable. You said that we should have retroactively discarded 100% of votes from specific precincts, so I pointed out why allowing selective invalidation like that is a really bad idea.
- ohgodplsno 4y agoI can register as an assessor for free (both for me and my city). The cases where cities have to pay for some is extremely rare. If you live in a city with even a hundred inhabitants, the chances to find at least one that is interested in their democratic process is already high.