Parkersburg News and Sentinel
Letter to the Editor, June 21
Sean P. Keefe
In a press conference earlier this week, Attorney General Merrick Garland spoke about the election audit occurring in Arizona and being considered in other states.
“Some jurisdictions, based on disinformation, have utilized abnormal post-election audit methodologies that may put the integrity of the voting process at risk and undermine public confidence in our democracy,” Garland said.
There were many statistical and anecdotal oddities noted throughout our Nov. 3, 2020, election. President Trump won the three bellwether states, Ohio, Florida and Iowa. He also won 18 of the 19 bellwether counties tracked in each nationwide election. In addition, Republicans gained 12 seats in the House of Representatives and gained control of two additional state legislatures while losing none. Finally, Joe Biden won the presidency with 81 million votes while winning only 527 of the nation’s 3,113 counties. By contrast, Barrack Obama garnered 69 million votes while winning 875 counties in 2008.
The citizens of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and New Hampshire have every right to audit their elections. Article I Section 4 and Article II Section 1 of the United States Constitution identifies the legislature of each state as having the responsibility to oversee and implement elections. In the founding of this great country, the states were created first, and it is the states that created the federal government, not the other way around.
Based on the aforementioned anomalies, each state in this union has a duty to audit their elections. How are we to have confidence in our election processes if, when questions arise, our elected officials and their appointed bureaucrats do everything they can to prevent the voting public from seeing behind the curtain.
We the people are the owners of our elections. Shouldn’t we demand to know that our votes were counted properly? If Joe Biden won the election in spite of these statistical and anecdotal anomalies, shouldn’t we confirm that in order to more easily explain future anomalies?
When I voted in November, I voted via a touchscreen system that then printed out my ballot. That ballot was then tabulated via another machine. Shouldn’t we know that these machines properly recorded and counted my vote? Our gas supply and airlines can be hacked, but our elections can’t?
When something stinks, transparency is the best deodorant. These audits should be performed without attempted intimidation by our sitting attorney general.
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