Elections: I am Embarrasment and Anger
Election daqy 2020 has come and gone, but the election is not yet over. The post election day turmoil has left me again embarrased and angry. The final outcomes may be cheering or disapointing to me, but the process will leave me with long lingering embarrasment and anger.
The United States should be a shing excam,ple of how a fair election is conducted. An unimpeachable example for every nation in the world. There should be little question of fraud, chicanery or any appearence of cheating by any campaigne, candfidate, party or by individual voters acting alone or in ccolusion with otherrs.
I am in favor of up-dated registered voter rolls. I am in favor of positive identification of voters as they cast their vote. I am in favor of encouraging in-person voting, while providing for limited mail in voting for absentee voters and shut-ins. I am in favor of a robust chain of custody for cast ballots. I am in favor of a rapid compilqation of ballots and votes. The details are negotiable.
I am aware that each State is granted the right to legislate their own election rules by the Constitution. Yet there must be a way to create a general nation-wide structure for elections that is fair, secure, and enforceable by federal authorities, that never-the-less does not abuse the constitutional provision for state's rights regarding elections.
The world is watching what is happening now and what will happen in the near future. We cannot have another election resolved as happened in 2002. Twenty some odd years later we have yet another contested outcome, and it will have to play out. Whatever the final outcomes, we as a nation, cannot let this orr anything like it happen again.