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PaulSnow t1_itrkken wrote

Reply to comment by fuzzycuffs in I am the co-author behind ACM’s TechBrief on Election Security: Risk-limiting Audits. Ask me anything about election security! by TheOfficialACM

Why do you think one party or the other is worse about honest elections?

Republicans have been pushing for more observers, more verifications, elimination of mail in ballots, laws against ballot harvesting, etc.

The Democrats are opposing election security. I'm not saying they are necessarily trying to steal elections, but they are not doing investigations into voter fraud, and opposing common sense election security so you can't catch voter fraud if it happens!

This guy is detailing some great ways to ensure nobody (including your Republican and her goods) can mess with the results. Something I applaud. But note none of his solutions work with mail in ballots outside of a monitored polling station.

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kavono t1_itrwaf1 wrote

>Why do you think one party or the other is worse about honest elections?

Probably because the last Republican president has continued to deny that he lost an election, and even claimed the one he'd won was also fraudulently rigged against him via "millions of illegal immigrant votes", and the vast majority of that party continues to side with him.

>but they are not doing investigations into voter fraud

Many studies of voter fraud have been done and the end results have always been extremely minimal. The fact that Conservatives dislike hearing that fact doesn't mean voter fraud is rampant, specifically only when they don't win, and only when it comes to key states they lost. If they actually had full fledged concerns about inaccurate results they wouldn't only call for audits in states they didn't win. They also wouldn't have chanted to "stop the count" or "count the votes" in certain states entirely dependent on whether Donald Trump was winning at that moment.

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DohRayMeme t1_itrxhhs wrote

I believe the reason the GOP is worse on honest elections is:

  • They deny the integrity of the 2020 vote with no evidence.
  • Without evidence of voter fraud, they seek to make voting more difficult
  • They are intimidating people who drop votes at ballot boxes
  • In Florida and Texas they are prosecuting ex-felons who have been told they were allowed to vote, instead of simply removing their ballots and reminding them that can't. This tactic will reduce voting of people who may have had a criminal record in the past.
  • They are seating election deniers in positions of power in canvasser and secretary of state positions so they can attempt to "Prevent another 2020"
  • They support the attempt to invalidate legitimate electoral votes under pressure of a violent mob on January 6th.
  • They are leading the charge in Moore v. Harper, which will allow state legislatures to set the terms for elections without judicial review.
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