Comment by TheAceOfHearts
3 years ago
Potentially controversial take: this general idea also applies to other areas such as elections. Any sufficiently large election will have to contend with fraud and human error, but this is acceptable as long as the numbers aren't large enough to change the outcome.
If you carefully scrutinize any large election you can almost certainly find at least one example of fraud. However, isolated cases of fraud or human error are not evidence of widescale election rigging.
This is what happens when enforcement is both overzealous and uneven: https://www.texastribune.org/2022/05/11/crystal-mason-illega...
A lot of the elections in the US in the last 25 years have been pretty close, that's the problem. I guess if they were less close or had some sort of proportional system, it might be less of a problem.