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Election Integrity: Paper Trails and One-Day Voting Work Best
The key to paper trail voting is to keep it decentralized
Among so many other election thefts in 2020 and 2022, the attempted stolen election in the Arizona gubernatorial race amply demonstrates that comprehensive election reform is vital.
Here is a key question: In a democracy, or in a representative republic such as we have in the U.S., what is more important, employing the latest sophisticated electronic equipment which does not provide a paper trail, or having an accurate vote count where both sides can agree on the actual votes for each candidate?
As founder of the Voter Integrity Project of North Carolina, Retired Col. Jay DeLancy examines voter rolls and seeks out voting improprieties, to find any instances where a vote could have been improperly cast or counted. DeLancy believes ensuring that every vote proper outweighs all other considerations, including ensuring that every individual finds it convenient to vote.
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A Fair and Lawful Fight
“Only by having a paper trail can the losing side recognize that they did not receive enough votes for their candidate,” says DeLancy. “Thus, they don’t have to be unduly upset that somehow the election was stolen. They don’t need to protest. Considering the current climate in the U.S., where, in every other election, the losing side feels as if their candidate was robbed, how can anything less than a paper trail be sufficient?”
When even the losing candidate can agree that it was a fair fight, DeLancy observes, we strengthen and solidify our constitutional republic and our long-standing experiment in people ruling – democracy. Paper trails support that.
Conversely, “employing the latest and greatest electronic equipment that counts votes at hyper speed, on the front end might increase voter participation,” he notes. “On the back end, which lingers far in the future, e-counting diminishes voter confidence.” Low voter confidence = disputed outcomes.
And Elsewhere?
DeLancy notes that voter integrity measures around the world are worth emulating or, at the least, worth examining. In Japan, for example, one month before elections all citizens receive a tax document that establishes their residence at that address. Delancy forcefully notes, that “without exception, if you lose that document you do not get to vote!”
In the U.S., Japan’s simple and effective system would instantly be attacked by the Left as ‘voter suppression.’ DeLancy says, “You can run through all the scenarios the Left would generate, reflexively. ‘What if I don’t pay any taxes?’ ‘What if I’m homeless?’ ‘What if I don’t receive the document?’” How dare the government establish that the people who claim to live at a particular address actually do! How dare the government require that citizens maintain this document.
In Mexico, each precinct keeps voting procedures simple and inexpensive. “By law, no precinct can be more than a mile away from the voters who will patronize it,” he says. “Most people can walk a mile in 20 minutes. A single town could have several dozen precincts. States could have thousands of precincts.”
Paper Trails Do Matter
What if the number of voting precincts in Mexico is enormous? “It’s all decentralized and based on a paper trail,” DeLancy assures. “Consider all the squabbles and protests that fall by the wayside when every voter resides within a mile of the voting precinct. You can ride in an ox cart ride for a mile or less! All that blather we hear about the elderly and various minorities not being able to make their way to the precinct disappears.”
A taxi won’t cost much for one mile. Uber and Lyft ride services cost even less. For one mile or less, you could bike it, or you could hop on a motorized scooter.
In Australia, with a population of 25.4 million people, votes are handled solely by paper. There are no electronic voting machines. In the U.S., by contrast, why are we slaves to the immediacy of the now, which dictates that because electronic voting machines exist, by golly, we have to use them!
The simple key to paper trail voting is to keep it decentralized. Every voting district, precinct, town, county, and state, leading up to a national presidential election, maintains a paper trail and upholds the integrity of its own jurisdiction.
High Speed, High Cost, High Maintenance
High-speed counting machines cost $25,000 to $500,000 or more. To open a new precinct with an adequate number of voting machines might require $3 to $4 million. If such precincts employed only a simple scanning device, to read paper ballots, counties could open up a new precinct every week.
The expenses for each jurisdiction would be so low by comparison to electronic voting machines that, like Mexico, you could ensure that their precincts were nearer and nearer to the voting populace.
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Elections
Treachery Plagues Our Nation: Democrat Election Tampering is Rampant
Top Democrats believe that they alone must control who governs and that the American electorate cannot be trusted
On this Memorial Day it would be comforting to believe that the 1.3 million U.S. combat deaths sustained in all wars, and the 1.4 million wounded, some severely, occurred in the preservation of our representative republic, and in the safeguarding 0f free and fair elections. We must confront the reality, however, that our election process has been tainted by treachery.
The Grandest Illusion
During the 2016 campaign Hillary Clinton and her backers conspired to frame Donald Trump and portray him as a Russian colluder. Then, EVERY DAY, for the rest of his administration they relentlessly hounded him and unforgivably pursued everyone connected to him.
After her presidential election loss, Hillary Clinton went on dozens of major media interviews claiming that Donald Trump was an illegitimate president. She, above all, knew that he was not. She knew that every time Adam Schiff and others opened their mouths about Trump, they told lies.
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If only the ruse went that far. For at least six years now, top Democrats have enjoyed the perpetuation of this treasonous hoax and, sadly, nearly half of Democrats still believe that Trump colluded with Russia.
Obama, the Corrupt
Barack Obama was aware of the scheme from the outset, in 2016, while he was still in the White House. Joe Biden knew about it as did James Clapper. CIA Director John Brennan briefed Obama, Biden, FBI Director James Comey, Attorney General Loretta Lynch, and other senior administration officials.
These top Democrat office holders went completely silent as the FBI initiated Crossfire Hurricane on the wild and unsubstantiated claim that Donald Trump was somehow a Russian agent.
The Mueller Commission knew about the scheme and proceeded anyway. After two months of searching they knew they had nothing on Trump, but shamefully continued for two years, daily badgering and intimidating his key staff people and his family. They interrogated Trump’s advisors and hit some of them with totally unrelated process crimes.
Andrew Weissmann, Mueller’s chief degenerate bulldog, knew as well that he had nothing on Trump and yet he continued to harass the Trump White House, forcing hundreds of hours of testimony, wasting millions of tax dollars.
The Lapdog Press
The New York Times, under the sordid and twisted leadership of Dean Baquet, made Trump-Russia collusion a daily topic. Rachel Maddow and Lawrence O’Donnell on MSNBC, and Anderson Cooper and Chris Cuomo on CNN, along with so many other talk show hosts, interviewed legions of ‘expert’ guests, who all repeated the claim that Trump was a Russian colluder.
Adam Schiff, on every single Sunday morning political talk show, repeatedly and emphatically said that he had evidence, had seen evidence, or knew of forthcoming evidence. Yet, he had nothing.
Let us be clear: These elected officials are traitors, and these media darlings are no better. And they are much wiser than you. They believe the American electorate cannot be trusted. They’ve decided that they alone must control who governs; the essence of treachery.
The Unending News Cycle
Today, it’s easy to overlook how vigorously the Left maintained this treachery. In the era of the 24-hour news cycle, we all glom on to what’s next and what’s next after that. Even Covid, vaccines, and mandated masks now seem like distant events.
Long after Robert Mueller appeared before Congress, and without offering a shred of evidence thoroughly embarrassed himself on national TV, the Democrats continued on. Hillary didn’t apologize. Obama never spoke up. Biden and his crime family kept enriching themselves by selling out America.
Brennan and Clapper haven’t come clean to this day. Adam Schiff is still playing the same tune and wants to run for the senate. Biden’s henchman are still badgering and persecuting Donald Trump with groundless lawsuits that no other president has had to endure for the same ‘offenses.’
These scoundrels, collectively, do not have an ounce of integrity within them. They could care less that their treachery has been exposed by the Durham Report, because the mainstream press, always providing cover for them, won’t touch the topic, and Attorney General Merrick Garland is their bag boy.
Neither Rachel Maddow nor anyone on MSNBC or CNN has recanted. Anderson Cooper is as self-righteous and bamboozled as ever. Surveys show that most rank and file Democrats remain in the dark.
Saul Alinsky’s Disciples
How can a free nation continue to thrive when half of its citizens are led by such abject liars? How can a representative republic remain intact when so many of its leaders are thoroughly corrupt and willing to stay corrupt?
A Chinese proverb says may you live in interesting times. They are infuriating times. Talk to liberals and they say, “There must have been something between Trump and Russia, otherwise why so much coverage?”
Like the Nazi axiom, repeat a lie often enough and people will start to believe it. Top Democrats are all Saul Alinsky advocates now, in league with the devil. None are worth saving. Many of them belong in prison for treason and most of them should be barred from public office.
Fraudulent Elections, 101
Make no mistake, if this array of top Democrats was willing to go as far as they did to stop Trump, and mask their treachery for seven years now, 2016 is not the only election in which they’ve conspired to interfere in our elections. Not by a long stretch.
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Elections
Democrats Once Made Sense Occasionally
By today’s standards JFK would be considered a conservative
With RFK, Jr. already favored by a sizable percentage of Democrats for the 2024 nomination, I recall a visit I made to his mother’s home. In 1988, I was invited by a friend to attend a Democratic fund raising reception for a congressional candidate, running in Northern Virginia. The reception was to be held at the home of Ethel Kennedy in McLean, VA.
I was eager to attend, although skeptical that the reception would actually be held in Mrs. Kennedy’s home. I felt certain it would be held in the back yard, or in a special tent on grounds that were meticulously groomed for the event.
To my surprise, the event was held in her home and the hundreds of people who attended apparently were free to roam about the first floor without restriction. I found this to be totally amazing. Here was a home, that by any measure, contained artifacts which future generations would clamor to see.
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A Panoply of Pop Culture and History
Every room contained personal photos of Bobby Kennedy, Jack Kennedy, Jackie Kennedy, Ted Kennedy and the entire clan, as well as awards, citations, and personal mementos. Guests could have pocketed their choice of mementos at any time. Apparently none did – at any time. More astounding, Mrs. Kennedy seemed completely unconcerned about the possibility.
As I meandered about the grounds, I made my way to the pool house. Between a couch and a chair, on a phone stand, along with the phone, was a roster of phone numbers typed and inserted in a plastic sleeve. I looked at the list. Ted Kennedy’s congressional phone number and his private number in Hyannis were listed. Jackie Kennedy’s personal phone number in New York was listed. Other family members, celebrities’ and luminaries’ personal phone numbers were listed.
Any reporter or paparazzi could have cashed in simply by copying the numbers on the list and selling them to the tabloids. This backyard, this yard, this house, on a typical street in McLean, VA had no fences, no guard dogs, none of what I would have expected the widow of a historical figure – a millionairess – to have.
People-oriented to the Max
I thought about all the time and energy that I, and most of the people I know, spend to safeguard our privacy, to ensure no one is looking over our shoulder when we’re doing something as simple as reading a newspaper on an airplane. Ethel Kennedy, however, was a public person, circa 1988.
It seemed inconceivable that an Ethel Kennedy could be so open and people-oriented, and not need the barriers and protectors that most of us believe we need.
As that night’s affair ended, I marveled when Ethel Kennedy stood at the door and bade all guests a fond farewell. She shook my hand and thanked me for coming as if I had been one of the Democratic Party’s most staunch supporters and honored guests in her home.
Accessible and Not-off-the-Wall
I was not a Democrat and never seek to be one, but this I know: by today’s standards JFK would be considered a conservative, or certainly someone ‘unworthy’ of the Democrat nomination. RFK senior likely would be in the same category.
Sure, many of their views and policies would be appear to be be left of center or at the center, but perhaps no more so than John McCain or George W. Bush. In any case, any Kennedy would be preferable to the tyrannical Leftist monsters currently in power, seeking to destroy America.
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