Trust But Verify The Vote
December 15, 2020 at 9:14 p.m.
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Trusting but verifying the vote, voter, and polling station through partial recounts and audits of voter rolls and polling stations should become a part of the standard operating practice of certifying the results after elections especially after presidential elections.
All 50 states and the District of Columbia should be required to adopt a process where election results are verified every congressional and presidential election cycle through a rotating recount and audit of voter registration rolls and polling stations in a select few congressional districts, counties, and precincts. For example, here in Indiana with our 92 counties, nine congressional districts, and over 5,300 precincts. We would have two or three congressional districts undergo an automatic recount and audit every two years, plus a dozen or two dozen randomly selected counties outside of those districts and a hundred or so precincts outside of those selected counties would be subject to a recount and audit. Each election cycles the congressional districts, counties and precincts would change. If widespread problems are occurring then it should go to a full recount and audit.
This would create a wide enough sample for confirming apparent voting irregularities or catching hidden irregularities in elections while keeping costs down when compared to a full recount. Such a system of partial recounts and audits would further strengthen a basic process in our democratic constitutional republic and ensure its reliability for all parties involved by keeping it free of actual or potential domestic and/or foreign subversion.
For those interested, please contract your U.S. senators and U.S. representatives to have this implemented for future elections that involve federal offices.
Alexander Houze
Leesburg
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Trusting but verifying the vote, voter, and polling station through partial recounts and audits of voter rolls and polling stations should become a part of the standard operating practice of certifying the results after elections especially after presidential elections.
All 50 states and the District of Columbia should be required to adopt a process where election results are verified every congressional and presidential election cycle through a rotating recount and audit of voter registration rolls and polling stations in a select few congressional districts, counties, and precincts. For example, here in Indiana with our 92 counties, nine congressional districts, and over 5,300 precincts. We would have two or three congressional districts undergo an automatic recount and audit every two years, plus a dozen or two dozen randomly selected counties outside of those districts and a hundred or so precincts outside of those selected counties would be subject to a recount and audit. Each election cycles the congressional districts, counties and precincts would change. If widespread problems are occurring then it should go to a full recount and audit.
This would create a wide enough sample for confirming apparent voting irregularities or catching hidden irregularities in elections while keeping costs down when compared to a full recount. Such a system of partial recounts and audits would further strengthen a basic process in our democratic constitutional republic and ensure its reliability for all parties involved by keeping it free of actual or potential domestic and/or foreign subversion.
For those interested, please contract your U.S. senators and U.S. representatives to have this implemented for future elections that involve federal offices.
Alexander Houze
Leesburg
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