RE: Election Fraud
June 23, 2016 at 6:04 pm
(This post was last modified: June 23, 2016 at 6:06 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(June 23, 2016 at 8:34 am)Aractus Wrote:(June 21, 2016 at 7:28 pm)bennyboy Wrote: This is so incredibly fucked up that it makes one wonder if there's a deep and systemic fraud going on.
As I've mentioned before there are many problems with the system in America. Primary votes are not really elections, so perhaps there's less scrutiny over it than there should be - I don't really know. What I do know is that the system does not work as designed. Read the Princeton (2014) paper: "When the preferences of economic elites and the stands of organized interest groups are controlled for, the preferences of the average American appear to have only a minuscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy."
Having worked as an election officer in California (managing a polling station) several times, I can say that primary elections there are regulated by a county-government agency, the same agency which oversees the general-election process.
They are real elections there, with votes tabulated by government agencies and subject to the same voting laws as the general election.
I cannot speak knowledgeably about other states, including Texas, where I have yet to serve in such a capacity. I hope to do so this year.
