Every vote that is fraudulent or eliminated illegally denies a citizen of their right to participate in an election. There should be the highest standards of validation and verification. I would hope that most people would agree but unfortunately about half the country doesn't.
The standards to ensure integrity should be as strict as when withdrawing money from a bank. Do you think that you could go to a teller and withdraw money without some sort of ID or verification? If they used the same slack standards of some of our states NO ID rules they could.
I keep hearing that there is no proof of election fraud. That is a ridiculous standard. The onus should be on election officials to prove beyond any reasonable doubt that there was not fraud. And who wouldn't suspect something is wrong when machines break down, poll monitors are thrown out, there are more votes than registered voters and ballots are dropped off in essentially unmonitored ballot boxes. And most of all when every attempt to do a thorough bipartisan audit is met with a firestorm of protest from the media, politicians and the FBI.
And when you takes days and weeks to count votes then you have a very flawed system and no I don't trust them. Trust for such a vital element of democracy has to be earned not taken for granted.
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