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Originally Posted by Mick
If anyone says the election went smoothly, needs a psychological assessment. There is no excuse for what’s happening, batches of votes being found and not counted, now in 3 counties in Georgia. Forget that this is Trump for a minute, the U.S is suppose to be top notch at elections, but this years has been a farce. Delayed counts-Problem after problem.
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It's a country of 180 million voters or whatever the final turnout will be. A few issues with a few thousand votes is not evidence of fraud and is not especially unusual. That's why when the margin is narrow there are recounts, recounts which found the issues you're talking about. It happens. It happened in 2016 too:
https://eu.desmoinesregister.com/sto...tion/97665238/ This stuff is eventually caught in the audit process but the margins are rarely thin enough to matter. Only in 2000 has it proved an issue.
I imagine if we did a recount of the last General Election the vote totals should change by a small margin each time you counted as well. It's just an imperfect process.
Even with the narrow margins involved those extra votes are not even close to being a threat to Biden's lead.
And again Trump has a well funded legal team that is losing case after case when they actually try to produce evidence of fraud. That's the problem the Trump campaign has with this 'let the courts decide' approach, in court, you have to prove it.
I think the US needs to revisit its voting system though. They shouldn't use computers as people will never have as much faith in them as they will pen and paper, they should have the same procedures in each state and they should allow the counting of ballots before Election Day.
They were never top-notch in elections though. They make everything too complicated and partisan.