I'm actually glad this is finally getting the proper attention. I've been saying since the late 1990s that where federal offices are concerned for a Republican to win the election he has to win the actual vote outside the margin of error. John Fund has been writing about this problem for at least 20 years now.
This has been just, "The way it is," inside the Beltway for decades. You don't call it out, you don't make an issue of it, you accept it for how things work.
One of the great things GEOTUS will be remembered for, I hope, is being one of the first office holders to call it out.
The scary thing is that while it's widespread in the sense that it's systemic, the truth is it's not massive in absolute scale. It is disturbing as to how little it takes to actually change the result of an election. Even a presidential election only requires a handful of precincts - sometimes counties - to shift the result. To make it worse, once the votes are in the system it is almost impossible to get them out.
I'm actually glad this is finally getting the proper attention. I've been saying since the late 1990s that where federal offices are concerned for a Republican to win the election he has to win the actual vote outside the margin of error. John Fund has been writing about this problem for at least 20 years now.
This has been just, "The way it is," inside the Beltway for decades. You don't call it out, you don't make an issue of it, you accept it for how things work.
One of the great things GEOTUS will be remembered for, I hope, is being one of the first office holders to call it out.
The scary thing is that while it's widespread in the sense that it's systemic, the truth is it's not massive in absolute scale. It is disturbing as to how little it takes to actually change the result of an election. Even a presidential election only requires a handful of precincts - sometimes counties - to shift the result. To make it worse, once the votes are in the system it is almost impossible to get them out.