President Trump Calls for 100% Hand-Counted Paper Ballots in All Future Elections
In a fairly remarkable speech uncovered by the media, the US President, Donald Trump called for the United States to join most of the rest of the developed world in using 100% hand-counted paper ballots in all elections in the future. Criticizing vote-counting machines, the president said all paper "maybe takes longer."
But vote counts in countries which count by hand, with observers and challengers present and rules for ballots and counting strictly enforced, typically know results within a day or two, widely agreed upon. In the US, widespread challenges of machine counts, along with widespread irregularities in statistical patterns, and voting and counting procedures, has resulted in the perhaps the bitterest election in American history.
In 2002, in Bush versus Gore, the US Supreme Court halted counting in Florida resulting a Bush victory, as the Gore campaign challenged irregularities in one state. In 2020, state legislatures in numerous states have called special hearings to hear witness testimony of irregularities of epic proportions, from witnesses under oath and penalty of perjury, in an election in which Republicans are still sweeping up House seats while the head of the ticket allegedly lost. The losses were by tiny margins only in swing states in which Trump held solid leads on election night , in states in which Democrat-dominated courts had gone as far as to abolish signature requirements for mail-in ballots.
The speech follows the publication in these pages of "America Must Use All Hand-Counted Ballots Now, Like the Rest of the World Does."
Most of the rest of the advanced world has gone to 100% hand-counted paper ballots in all elections, even in cities as big as Berlin and Paris.
There is nothing impossible about hand counting ballots in big cities. It was done for years, and now we have video surveillance of counting and storage rooms to make it more secure. Other advanced democracies have had their tries with machine count technology and have returned to hand counted paper ballots.
Countries which now employ systems of 100% hand-counted paper ballots include Germany, Canada, France, Ireland, Italy, Denmark, Finland, and 53 other countries.
Election integrity activists on both sides of the aisle have long called for this. Germany banned the use of machines to count ballots in 2009. Hand-counted paper ballots are something that everyone can agree upon, unless cheating is on their minds.
One does not see the endless disputes in Europe over elections as one sees here. You may not like the results, but people pretty much agree on who won.
In politics people will never agree. The best that democracy has to offer is peace, by people agreeing on the fairness of the process.
For more information go to Center for Hand-Counted Paper Ballots.
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