Thursday 5 November 2020

USA 2020: States holding onto Trump Votes?

 Why do I get the impression that states are holding onto Trump votes and deliberately not counting them?

In Wisconsin over 100,000 votes were counted supposedly from the mail-in ballots. for Biden. Not one main-in vote went to Trump. A statistical impossibility.

In Arizona, the state has been claimed for Biden, even though the pro-Trump rural counties have not yet been counted.

So in this instance, could it be the Michigan postal votes for Trump have been squirrelled away somewhere so that when Trump goes to the Supreme Court to get the the election finally called it backfires on him?

The Democrats can say they won and it's tough luck on Trump - he was tripped up by his own impatience.

At the very least, the ballots in Arizona, Wisconsin and Michigan should be recounted. There is enough anecdotal evidence of vote rigging in those states to force a recount.

Late night unsecured ballot deliveries, statistical anomalies, all of them point to at least a properly scrutinised recount in those states. I'd have thought that's the most fair solution.

In the future, the US really needs to get a handle on ballot security. Turning up with ballots in carrier bags is not secure. How tempting would it be to remove certain ballots from pro-Trump areas from the bag and throw them in the trash, to try and help your favoured candidate? 

In the UK our ballot boxes have seals on them and the seals are not broken until the box arrives at the counting centre in order to ensure ballot security. It works so well some of the boxes are now over 100 years old. 

The US really needs to start looking at how they do elections. Obviously there is enough opportunity for impropriety that the results can be cast into doubt. As can be seen when elections get as close as this one.

When the difference between winning and losing is below a hundred votes, you really need to know every vote has ben cast, collected, transported and counted correctly. And provably so.



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