The President’s Trumped-Up Claims of Voter Fraud

[Albion]

I almost forgot about the hanging Chads. I think that's what it was called.

Yes. The use of IBM-card voting speeded up the vote counting, which is what people were clamoring for. Punching out the chad on the card wasn't always tidy, and recounting them by hand was a nightmare, however.

But for most elections, the results were known in short order and people liked that. We've gotten used to being annoyed if by midnight the result isn't ready to be reported.

Now, though, we are preparing to go back to a version of what was our system before there even were the famous phone-booth style voting machines. Or worse. Election day will be a nightmare this year so far as tabulations are concerned, and we haven't even mentioned that the laws concerning how the mail-in ballots are counted differs from state to state.

 

[JimR-OCDS]

The President's Trumped-Up Claims of Voter Fraud

tulc(thought people would find this interesting)

Trump didn't tweet that the election should be delayed. He questioned about a delay as Governors of states which are going to have mail-in-voting are calling for a delay so they can count the ballots that arrive late or were delayed in being counted.

Again, Trump merely put out the question to those calling for mail-in-voting this election