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2024-06-12 Home Front: Politix
Why Americans Mistrust Election Results More Than the Citizens of Any Other Democracy
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[Hot Air] America is almost alone among democratic countries in not requiring paper ballots. As of 2023, only Brazil counts all its ballots in national elections through electronic voting. According to Pew Research Center, votes are cast by manually marking paper ballots in 209 of the 227 countries. In France, as reported by the Associated Press, voters "use the same system that's been used for generations: paper ballots that are cast in person and counted by hand." In 2009, Germany's Federal Constitutional Court ruled that voting machines could no longer be used. In 2017, the Dutch government announced that all ballots in the 2017 general election would be counted by hand.

Moreover, among those countries that use electronic voting, only in America are the source codes of the voting machines kept secret. Three companies -- Dominion, Election Systems & Software, and Hart InterCivic -- control about 90% of the U.S. voting technology market. Each is privately held, and each is committed to keeping its source code from becoming fully public. Wherever else in the world electronic voting is allowed, the source codes are available to all political parties.

America is almost alone among democratic countries in not confining voting to one day. All through American history, Americans voted on Election Day (unless they had previously requested an absentee ballot). The left has obliterated Election Day; we now have Election Month.

Various American states are alone among democratic countries in mailing ballots to all their citizens -- that is, even to those who never requested a ballot be sent to them.

America is almost alone among democratic countries in the length of time it takes to learn election results. In other countries, people continue to learn the results within hours. Throughout American history, Americans knew the outcome of virtually every election the night of Election Day. No longer.

All too often, tragically, there are valid reasons for Americans to mistrust election results. Add elections to the long list of institutions the left has ruined.
Posted by Besoeker 2024-06-12 05:42|| || Front Page|| [11145 views ]  Top

#1 Add elections to the long list of institutions the left has ruined.

Elections, Education, the courts, the military, medicine, agriculture, energy, banking, and the IRS. What might I have missed ?
Posted by Besoeker 2024-06-12 05:56||   2024-06-12 05:56|| Front Page Top

#2 Just spread your arms across DC, Besoeker.

That'll mostly cover it.
Posted by Mullah Richard 2024-06-12 06:26||   2024-06-12 06:26|| Front Page Top

#3 Ah, voter ID?
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-06-12 06:35||   2024-06-12 06:35|| Front Page Top

#4 The Left always wants to shove slavery in our face even though it ended over a 150 years ago, but intentionally choose to ignore Tammany from the same period that continues to plague us today. Both institutions of the Donks.
Posted by Procopius2k 2024-06-12 07:41||   2024-06-12 07:41|| Front Page Top

#5 in person,on paper,same day, hand counted. exception for military. period!
Posted by irish rage boy 2024-06-12 08:15||   2024-06-12 08:15|| Front Page Top

#6 One could make the argument that Trumps legal woes might be circumstantial evidence indicating the Donks know how bad they really lost by last time thus everything and the kitchen sink might be the only way.
Posted by Jefe101 2024-06-12 09:37||   2024-06-12 09:37|| Front Page Top

#7 ^ History will likely note that the 2020 presidential election was fraudulent. We'll be making lovely harp melodies by then, but I suspect it will all cone out eventually.
Posted by Besoeker 2024-06-12 10:25||   2024-06-12 10:25|| Front Page Top

#8 Elections, Education, the courts, the military, medicine, agriculture, energy, banking, and the IRS. What might I have missed ?

Television.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2024-06-12 11:39||   2024-06-12 11:39|| Front Page Top

#9 One wonders what a world where lying is frowned upon might look like.
Posted by M. Murcek 2024-06-12 11:42||   2024-06-12 11:42|| Front Page Top

#10 It was encouraging that Geert Wilders won in the Netherlands and Marine Le Pen's party made such a good showing in the European Parliament elections. And then there's Victor Orban in Hungary and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. Who would have ever thought that there is more hope for Europe than America?
Posted by Abu Uluque 2024-06-12 11:44||   2024-06-12 11:44|| Front Page Top

#11 Hopefully Europe won't have to come to America's rescue this time.
Posted by M. Murcek 2024-06-12 11:47||   2024-06-12 11:47|| Front Page Top

#12 Ref #9: An order of monks somewhere in the Alsace where verbal communication is forbidden and days are spent tending the vines and making bread.
Posted by Besoeker 2024-06-12 11:50||   2024-06-12 11:50|| Front Page Top

#13 How about absentee for medical and military?
Posted by Neville+Shavish3973 2024-06-12 11:55||   2024-06-12 11:55|| Front Page Top

#14 An argument can be made to exclude absentees.
Posted by Skidmark 2024-06-12 12:13||   2024-06-12 12:13|| Front Page Top

#15 Yes, if voting is the most sacredest, importantest thing in all of duhmocracy it should have an absurdly high threshold for participation, not an absurdly low one.
Posted by M. Murcek 2024-06-12 12:30||   2024-06-12 12:30|| Front Page Top

#16 #9 & #12 There is lying and then there is our current public circumstance where the powerful would force us to not just accept their lies as current reality but enthusiastically endorse, champion, and cheer their foamy brown wave on.

Posted by Cesare 2024-06-12 13:03||   2024-06-12 13:03|| Front Page Top

#17 The whole problem is that they do not lie - they really believe everything they say.
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-06-12 13:06||   2024-06-12 13:06|| Front Page Top

#18 Solve the absentee problem by bringing our boys (and girls and whatever non-binaries might be overseas with them) home.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2024-06-12 14:03||   2024-06-12 14:03|| Front Page Top

#19 ^ Yes!
Posted by M. Murcek 2024-06-12 14:04||   2024-06-12 14:04|| Front Page Top

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