That's my number one piece, but there's pieces of this puzzle that need procedural nudges IMO.
There were a lot of places where (1) the procedure's language doesn't sound that bad, (2) but the procedure was twisted into a pretzel in actuality. "Technically, we're following procedure!" Yeah, but the way you're doing it is nuts. Evicting the observers? Taping the windows? 20 foot observation distances?
These aren't battles that are won on election night, and they can't be successfully argued after the fact. Even being a poll watcher isn't enough - it's the full-time elections officials that set up the core mechanics. And you can bet they're vetted to within an inch of their life andor entangled with the city machine inextricably somehow.
If we had 1:1 Dem to Rep working elections we would see way less games played. If you work a metro election, it's a joke. Nobody is there from Republican side. Those there already left because they spent 10 hours by themselves. You heard the witness testimony.
Officials matter but we need 200k more working in 2022.
That's my number one piece, but there's pieces of this puzzle that need procedural nudges IMO.
There were a lot of places where (1) the procedure's language doesn't sound that bad, (2) but the procedure was twisted into a pretzel in actuality. "Technically, we're following procedure!" Yeah, but the way you're doing it is nuts. Evicting the observers? Taping the windows? 20 foot observation distances?
These aren't battles that are won on election night, and they can't be successfully argued after the fact. Even being a poll watcher isn't enough - it's the full-time elections officials that set up the core mechanics. And you can bet they're vetted to within an inch of their life andor entangled with the city machine inextricably somehow.
If we had 1:1 Dem to Rep working elections we would see way less games played. If you work a metro election, it's a joke. Nobody is there from Republican side. Those there already left because they spent 10 hours by themselves. You heard the witness testimony.
Officials matter but we need 200k more working in 2022.