Re:Facebook Indefinitely Suspends Trump
by nobody9999 on Sunday January 10, 2021 @01:12PM
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>What's more, in all 3,193 elections (one in each US county) every election day, there are polling/canvassing observers for all candidates on each ballot present.
>And since there are 3,193 separate elections, each with their own administrators, poll workers and polling/canvassing observers, literally tens of thousands of people are involved.
It's too late for me to edit the above, but the number above should be 3,143 not 3,193.
My apologies for the typo and any confusion.
Gotcha. I was mostly responding to this bit:
>they weren’t given the time or resources for discovery or developed argument that would provide any type of closure. In many cases the remedy may be worse than the outcome.
I'd only add (and I should have in my previous reply, mea culpa) that given the known time constraints that any post-election lawsuit carries, election lawyers and campaigns are used to acting quickly.
What's more, in all 3,193 elections (one in each US county) every election day, there are polling/canvassing observers for all candidates on each ballot present.
And almost all states have either paper ballots or voter-verified paper audit trails[0], creating a physical record of each vote.
And since there are 3,193 separate elections, each with their own administrators, poll workers and polling/canvassing observers, literally tens of thousands of people are involved.
In order to commit fraud at any scale would require the complicity of thousands of people. And while a bit hyperbolic, as Ben Franklin is purported to have said, "three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead." Thousands of people? Not so much.
[0] https://ballotpedia.org/Voting_methods_and_equipment_by_stat...