Nice! TL/DR: do you assume that local misbehaviors by election officials are focused on the national election?
A question about these 169 reports of apparent election nobbling: were there major local or regional political fights going on? Was this action done by local political machines? We don't have "an election", we have thousands of elections run by tens of thousands of people. Yes, an interesting number of these elections are nobbled in some way. Is an election in county X nobbled in different ways, by different people, in different years? I suspect it's the same nobbling each time, and that it is usually over local issues.
Many years ago, San Francisco (the city is its own county) had a proposition to take over the SF part of the Pacific Gas & Electric utility grid, to create a public utility grid. The proposition failed. After the count, ballot box lids started washing up on the shore of the Bay. These box lids may have been real, or they may have been fabricated and planted. But this was a tough local fight that did not matter 50 miles away. I suspect that these local and regional political fights are the main topic of local election nobbling. After all, given that you have to create a conspiracy to commit election fraud, so is it worth it to organize 300 people in 20 counties to perpetrate one fraud?
Solzhenitsyn link is now dead (500). Here's a different one to the same piece for those interested.
https://www.solzhenitsyncenter.org/live-not-by-lies
Nice! TL/DR: do you assume that local misbehaviors by election officials are focused on the national election?
A question about these 169 reports of apparent election nobbling: were there major local or regional political fights going on? Was this action done by local political machines? We don't have "an election", we have thousands of elections run by tens of thousands of people. Yes, an interesting number of these elections are nobbled in some way. Is an election in county X nobbled in different ways, by different people, in different years? I suspect it's the same nobbling each time, and that it is usually over local issues.
Many years ago, San Francisco (the city is its own county) had a proposition to take over the SF part of the Pacific Gas & Electric utility grid, to create a public utility grid. The proposition failed. After the count, ballot box lids started washing up on the shore of the Bay. These box lids may have been real, or they may have been fabricated and planted. But this was a tough local fight that did not matter 50 miles away. I suspect that these local and regional political fights are the main topic of local election nobbling. After all, given that you have to create a conspiracy to commit election fraud, so is it worth it to organize 300 people in 20 counties to perpetrate one fraud?
Cheers!