Comment by redman25
3 years ago
This might be a sensitive question but I wonder if something like this would work in the United States? With all of the fears of election interference why not trust but verify?
3 years ago
This might be a sensitive question but I wonder if something like this would work in the United States? With all of the fears of election interference why not trust but verify?
Would you trust the recount? I mean, the only way to engage the number of people you need to do that kind of recount is by having them very pissed, so most likely feeling like their party was wronged and therefore the thing is partisan by essence. If you're on the winning party you wouldn't trust the numbers the others give you anyhow, so what's the point
Genuinely the US would do better if it had paper elections with a handcount with observers. The system works in the UK just fine. Unfortunately, there's a category of people in both the US and Nigeria who use "election interference" to mean "accurately counting the votes".
The distrust is not based on evidence. Actual election fraud is incredibly rare in the US, typically things like someone owning property in two states and voting the state ballot in one and federal in the other. Getting two ballots is legal but using both is jail time. Typical solo offender is a conservative white male.