Just to,show you how easily election fraud can take place ... . When I worked on a campaign, I was able to download election data. I used the historical data to score voters on likelihood of voting. For example, 5's were reliable voters and we targeted them with mailings. 0's were registered but had NEVER voted. (That's about 30%) The current data was updated daily and told us whether they had voted early, requested an absentee ballot and whether it had been turned in.. this allowed us to remove people who had already voted from our phone and mailing lists to save resources.
Data includes address, dob, race, gender. Can you see the possibilities for voter fraud there? I sure can. For example,could generate a list of 0's, change their address and request absentee ballots, or in the case of a location with many people like a nursing home, intercept the mail with an partner. Since they never vote, nobody would notice if their ballots are hijacked then deposited into an unattended drop box. That's just ONE way to do it.
Point being, there are holes in the system and we need to close them so we ALL have confidence eve in the integrity of our elections. W
#2 I have always stood up for dispatchers. Their stress level is arguably higher than that of police officers. They deal with panicked, hysterical people in distress all day long. Most of the time the situation has calmed by the time officers arrive on scene, often because the dispatchers themselves deescalate the situation over the phone. It takes a special (and intelligent) person to do that well.
The salaries are low, the burnout rate is high. That makes it hard to recruit and retain good dispatchers. This one clearly wasn't cut out for the job. I'll be interested in hearing the audio. I'm sure it will be released soon.