Drudge Retort: The Other Side of the News

Drudge Retort

Menu

Subscriptions

Drudge Retort RSS feed RSS Feed

Links

Recent Comments

Recent comments from all news stories on this site. Users must follow the site's moderation policy. Personal attacks, profanity, abusive conduct and expressions of prejudice are not allowed. If you want to retrieve a comment of yours that was recently deleted, visit your user page and click the Moderation link.

American elections are a system

A system of voting

No system is ever perfect.

Literally no system

Errors in the voting system can be either an invalid vote is counted (generally considered voter fraud) OR an eligible voter's vote is not counted (generally considered voter suppression).

It is an irrefutable truth that the ability to have invalid votes count on a significant basis approaches nil

As an aside, even if invalid voting occurs the system does not prevent either side from using this highly inefficient method of voter fraud, thereby, inherently, there is partial balance in how actual voter fraud would play out. IOW, since both sides of the election can insert invalid votes there is a natural way of these countering each other, making the impact of inserting invalid votes as even less effective.

That is because sufficient invalid votes need to be inserted into the vote tally that would a. change the results of the vote and b. offset any counterbalancing invalid votes. This is an incredibly high hurdle to get over.

Consider that in general the entity committing voter fraud will have imperfect knowledge of how many invalid votes are required or will prevent suspicion. Too few and the results do not change, too many and red flags appear due to polling and voter turnout numbers.

It approaches an impossibility to insert sufficient invalid votes in an election on a meaningful basis.

Therefore, the incentive to insert invalid votes simply is negligible.

The capacity for the system to REJECT or DENY valid votes is infinitely greater that it is to insert invalid votes

To insert an invalid vote, one has to create a voter OR to change a vote OR to impact individual voters.

That is a far more difficult task than to PREVENT a voter from casting their vote.

All one has to do is to place regulatory hurdles in the path of voting or make voting onerous or limit access to the voting process or categorize certain voters as ineligible at the time of voting (assuring the process to validate a vote is onerous) thus denying their votes are tallied or scare voters from the election process.

So, I ask the basic question.

Which is a bigger danger to the democratic process-voter fraud or voter suppression?

Uh, oh ...

Trump declines Saudi crown prince's call for US strikes on Houthis - report

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman called US President Trump twice on Thursday and urged him to launch strikes against the Houthis, Axios reported, citing two US officials.

Trump rejected the request, and US officials said the administration does not intend to take direct military action against the Houthis at this time, the report said.

Drudge Retort

Home | Breaking News | Comments | User Blogs | Stats | Back Page | RSS Feed | RSS Spec | DMCA Compliance | Privacy