You can't claim fraud didn't occur.
I think I can, at least not meaningful fraud. Were that not the case we would know about it by now. Something would have been found and either reported or leaked. Errors were found and corrected. The fraud that did occur is being prosecuted. We have state officials who have certified their elections. We have high level officials like Krebs and Barr who have assured us. Yes, I think it's safe to say it didn't happen.
You have worked in polling places and know something about internal control processes.
I have never worked in a polling place. Even if I had, there are hundreds of jurisdictions, each with their own procedures. Some are likely designed better than others. Some are likely managed better than others on the ground during the operation. I am working from a profound knowledge of system design, in general, what I have absorbed over the years about how elections are operated, and common sense. (Speaking of common sense, do you still think that the D's are busing illegals into polling places? Or have you moved on from that figment?)
Re your enumerated items, it's true what you say (1) about re-connecting a separated ballot and (3) observing from far away.
But your notion that the only meaningful control over any of that is having a Republican looking over the shoulder of every election official at each step at the time of execution is partisan and paranoid and ridiculously slow and costly.
The time for partisan weighing in is when the procedures are set and officials designated. Then partisans can dispute the processes or the players and sue for a remedy if not satisfied. After things are settled, you let the well-considered process play out as designed.
You may recall one of the rulings in PA, I think it was, that, it was too late to raise an issue, that it should have been raised at the time the legislature made its decision. It's really bass-ackwards to do what you're suggesting. |
