Post-COVID elections need a closer look and an overhaul

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With the pandemic behind us, let’s challenge the states to determine which practices from the strange times of COVID should be abandoned, writes Chris Siddall. Ideas for change can come from across the country and abroad.

An election worker places a ballot in a counted bin during a hand recount of Presidential votes on Sunday, Nov.15, 2020 in Marietta, Ga. OVID changed education and healthcare, and it changed how we work, socialize, and practice religion. COVID also changed how we vote. Many of our COVID-era election practices would not pass muster with even the most permissive of election observers.

In countries with little or only intermittent experience in competitive democracy, my colleagues and I helped build election commissions as credible institutions of governance. We contributed to discussions of mechanics in open parliamentary sessions and behind closed doors when asked by national leaders and election managers. Every country’s case called for carefully negotiated processes that kept fairness and transparency top of mind.

Fairness to each voter means that registration and voting should not place a disproportionate burden on any eligible voter or group. Fairness to all requires that only eligible voters take part so as not to dilute the value of any individual vote cast. Both parties could embrace this simple idea as they hash out the changes which might or might not unfairly advantage one side or another.

 

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The very idea of one party having election officials that prevent the other party from monitoring the results says everything we need to know about our so-called elections. Like Joe Biden said, who votes don't matter, the one who counts the vote matters. Limit mail-in ballots.

Or we can just keep doing what we've always done... Most of us didn't stop our lives because of a virus 🙄

Maybe we need to invest in public health.

What pandemic? Oh, you mean the Hysteria portion of The Great Reset. Is this the part where we all 'pivot' to doing whateverthehell it is you want? I'm thinking more along the lines of Nuremberg Trials 2, with journalists and politicians to the front of the que.

All of them.

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