If the counters come to believe that there are no consequences for fudging a few votes here and there, you will never have another honest election.
The process has to be rigorously monitored ... always.
I can’t believe that I had to tell you that!
ONE vote matters. Each ONE of our votes should matter. I stayed up until 2:00 A.M. to find out who won, and it was the strangest thing, but first they announced that they were waiting for votes being driven in to the counting location “by a guy in a pick-up truck”. Then they said they couldn’t find the votes from the last two remaining precincts. Then we were told of an error in an already counted precinct. And all of this information came from Karl Rove who supposedly had contacts in all of the areas in question. This is the same establishment Karl Rove who has been pushing Romney on us and using his super pac to buy negative ads against all of Romney’s opponents. Curious, isn’t it?