How to Get Free and Fair US Elections

 Ron Clutz

The image above gets it right on the basics:  Eligible voters come to their voting station with valid ID and proot of residency, and paper trail exists to validate machine entry and processing.  But there are some subtleties around the edges requiring management.  For example, voter registration should be in advance of the voting process, and not on election day.  Why? Because there’s no time to check for fake ID or residency. Later on is a post on why there must be an election day deadline, beyond which votes cannot be added to the count.  But first a look at some international standards regarding elections and balloting.

A Practical Guide to Democratic Elections Best Practice from Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (OSCE).  Below is the section on Balloting.

Right:
To Universal Suffrage, To Equal Suffrage, To Secret Ballot, To Fair Elections
Which  Guarantee the Free Expression of the Will of the People

Balloting  Best Practices:

• Voting procedures must be understandable so that voters are able to vote without difficulty

• Voting should take place in a polling station; however, other means of voting are permissible for voters who are physically unable to attend a polling station, but only where there are safeguards in place to prevent fraudulent voting

• Observers and representatives of candidates and political parties must be permitted to observe the delivery of election materials, preparation of the polling place, voting, and counting of ballots

• Members of the military should vote in the place of their permanent residency, or in a polling station near their duty station

• Voting must be in person, by secret ballot

• Voters must present adequate identification information and sign register in order to vote

• Only the voter may mark a ballot, except that a voter who requires assistance for physical reasons may be assisted by another voter who is not a member of the election administration or an observer

• Ballots and voting materials must be securely maintained before, during, and for a sufficient period of time after an election

• The entire counting process must be conducted in a transparent manner in the presence of observers and representatives of candidates, political parties, and the media

• There must be procedures for, in the presence of observers, independent verification of all elements of the counting and tabulation

• All results of voting, tabulations, and protocols must be publicly posted at the polling station and copies given to representatives of observers, and transmitted to higher levels of election commissions in a transparent manner

• Intermediate tabulations and protocols must be publicly posted at intermediate election commissions and copies given to representatives of observers

• All final voting results must be published in media as soon as possible after elections in such a manner that voters are able to check results at their polling places

• Legal measures must be in place to deter electoral fraud in the voting, counting, and tabulation processes

Navarro Report On the 2020 US Presidential Election

There is extensive evidence that the US 2020 election did not respect the above best practices.  The 2021 Navarro Report (link in red above) provides the details summarized in this table:

The detailed report includes many documented events, including evidence under the heading Outright Voter Fraud:

Fake Ballot Manufacturing and Destruction of Legally Cast Real Ballots

Fake ballot manufacturing involves the fraudulent production of ballots on behalf of a candidate; and one of the most disturbing examples of possible fake ballot manufacturing involves a truck driver who has alleged in a sworn affidavit that he picked up large crates of ballots in New York and delivered them to a polling location in Pennsylvania.  There may be well over 100,000 ballots involved, enough fake ballots alone to have swung the election to Biden in the Keystone State.

Likewise in Pennsylvania, there is both a Declaration and a photo that suggests a poll worker used an unsecured USB flash drive to dump an unusually large cache of votes onto vote tabulation machines. The resultant tabulations did not correlate with the mail-in ballots scanned into the machines.

Arguably the most flagrant example of possible fake ballot manufacturing on behalf of Joe Biden may have occurred at the State Farm Arena in Atlanta, Georgia. The possible perpetrators were caught in flagrante delicto on surveillance video. In one version of this story, poll watchers and observers as well as the media were asked to leave in the middle of the night after a suspicious water leak. Once the room was cleared, several election officials pulled out large boxes of ballots from underneath a draped table. They then proceeded to tabulate a quantity of fake manufactured ballots estimated to be in the range of tens of thousands

Finally, as an example of the possible destruction of legally cast real ballots there is this allegation from a court case filed in the United States District Court for the District of Arizona: Plaintiffs claim that over 75,000 absentee ballots were reported as unreturned when they were actually returned. These absentee ballots were then either lost or destroyed (consistent with allegations of Trump ballot destruction) and/or were replaced with blank ballots filled out by election workers or other third parties.

And so on, and so on.  All of these worst practices were employed with impact because of a fundamental illegality that disqualifies any and all elections when it occurs.  Jonathan Gault explains the problem in his American Thinker article Beware the ‘Long Count’.  Excerpts in italics with my bolds.

Though barely campaigning, unable to speak, and drawing massive crowds, measured in dozens, waving to nobody, on the rare occasions when he was able to muster the energy to leave his basement, Joe Biden remarkably received the most votes of any candidate in US history. However, his historic popularity notwithstanding, his debatable victory nevertheless still required eking out miraculously close races in the hyper-partisan Democrat strongholds of Atlanta, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Phoenix, and Las Vegas, each of which employed the Long Count.

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