I could think of nothing better to share with you today, but this post was written by my incredibly private wife. She wrote it yesterday. It’s currently buzzing around Facebook. It’s an important read today.
“I don’t normally post. Just giving some color here.
I worked for the Board of Election this past Tuesday. I have run several campaigns so I have been on one side of this and decided to help on the other side this time.
I spent Saturday in class. Passed a test. Signed an oath promising to be ethical under threat of incarceration.
On Tuesday morning, we broke into teams. There were two Dems and two Reps per team. One D and one R had to sign each ballot and verify each voter. All four of us had to agree unanimously on any issues. If not, it went to another bipartisan team. And then to the Board of Elections. (This never happened btw. We had no disagreements.)
At the end of the day, the four of us had to agree on the total ballot count TWICE. Then sign swearing they were accurate. And then swear to an independent board that it was accurate – to each person on the three person board. It was counted by each reviewer. That is THREE more counts. Then we had to go to the poll coordinator. Verify the numbers again. And then turn all votes to the police who all had to swear and sign again. Then the police took the votes to the Board of Elections to be counted – AGAIN.
Just in my little polling precinct, the votes were verified six times and counted by 8 people who swore to confirm the accuracy on threat of jail time. (Listen – I’m so done with this hateful, piece of shit lunatic, but I’m not going to jail to take him out.)
Mail-in and absentee votes follow the same path. These just take longer because you have to open, flatten and scan them all.
Unless votes just don’t so up, voter fraud is bullshit. There is no way a dozen or more people of various parties all collude together to “steal an election” so they can go to jail. Oh – and there are independent watchers from each campaign or party watching all this happen as well.
Most states work EXACTLY like this. The only difference is when you start/stop voting collection and counting.
Every single person I worked with, Democrats and Republicans alike, was incredibly dedicated to the accuracy of each vote. The weight of the responsibility to do it right was massive and everyone took it seriously.. The people counting these votes should be commended. It’s stressful and if they don’t do it right – they go to jail.
So again – unless the votes just don’t show up – claims of massive fraud are stupid. These are regular people counting these votes – my team was a lady who works at TJ Maxx, a college kid and a stay-at-home mom. These aren’t people going to jail for Biden or Trump. These aren’t political operatives. They came out in a pandemic, risking their lives, so you could vote. They are just regular people trying really hard to do the right thing.
Enough. Let them finish counting.”
Let’s do this.
-Shaun