By Danny Westneat
To those (click here) who would suppress the vote: careful, we're checking your "alternative facts" and speaking to your experts.
This has been vote-counting week around the state. (click here) But the guy in charge of counting them down in Mason County says he can’t go into the vote-counting room.
“If I go in, someone would immediately accuse me of fraud,” says Paddy McGuire, Mason County’s Democratic auditor. “I have a great team down there, so I just stay up here in my office.”
So it goes in the era of election fraud mania. What started on a national level in 2020 has trickled all the way down to the trenches of democracy.
McGuire is one of three county auditors in the state who have been challenged by election fraud conspiracists for their jobs. He says auditors used to be treated like pharmacists: They were anodyne, invisible professionals.
“Now people distrust us innately,” he said....
This has been vote-counting week around the state. (click here) But the guy in charge of counting them down in Mason County says he can’t go into the vote-counting room.
“If I go in, someone would immediately accuse me of fraud,” says Paddy McGuire, Mason County’s Democratic auditor. “I have a great team down there, so I just stay up here in my office.”
So it goes in the era of election fraud mania. What started on a national level in 2020 has trickled all the way down to the trenches of democracy.
McGuire is one of three county auditors in the state who have been challenged by election fraud conspiracists for their jobs. He says auditors used to be treated like pharmacists: They were anodyne, invisible professionals.
“Now people distrust us innately,” he said....
Every elected official should have a job description. If there is no job description perhaps those legitimately looking to do a good job for the people should state one of the first things they will do when elected is to compose a job description to be included in all voting ballots.
The way I see it, those "screaming fraud" are not looking for anything fraudulent because they know they won't find it. They are looking for consenting adults to put in place fraudulent ballots and then throw the election to the insurgent. People screaming fraud before any balloting and/or ballot recounts are insurgents. It is just that simple.
The "fraud screamers" are insurgents.
There is no fraud in USA elections.
There just isn't.
Do not indulge this mess!
I would think a person in charge of vote counting is expected to be supervising the vote count and/or the recount. By staying away from the process to supervise or assist, that is putting the process at risk while opening up the one person in charge to complains of refusing to do the job. This is not only ridiculous, it is also risky in not having responsible people in the room for counting the ballots.
These "fraud screamers" want observers in the room while the ballots are being counted and/or recounted, so why would any official duly assigned to this task not be in the room? None of that is prudent and/or legal. A vote counter needs to count votes.
If the most legally responsible person is not present that opens up the entire process to questions and sends the entire mess to a court where the person responsible for counting can be accused of refusing to do his/her job.
The process requires an integrated method of recording votes, even if it is with a purple finger. That means there is a STANDARD to counting votes. These fraudsters are not your neighbors or family, they are complete strangers that will conduct fraud and ballot stuffing and everything they can muster to turn the election in the way they want the outcome and not what the voters want as an outcome.
Those responsible for a legal and clean vote count needs to do their jobs. Let the "fraud screamers" tell it to a judge.
End of discussion.
