Chapter 4 —Trust Our Election Officials?
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| Vote Fraud and Election Issues Book | Table of Contents | Site Map | Index | Summaries |
| 1 — Introduction To Voting Problems | 2 — Essays On Voting Problems | 3 — Direct Recording Electronic Voting |
| 5 — Lies, Damn Lies, and Mail In Elections | 6 — Pitfalls Of Statewide Voter Registration Databases |
| 7 — Building Better Ballot Boxes | 8 — Voting Problems In The 2002 Elections | 9 — Voting Problems In The 2003 Elections |
| 10 — Voting Problems In The 2004 Elections | 11 — Voting Problems In The 2005 Elections | 12 — Voting Problems In The 2006 Elections |
| 13 — Voting Problems In The 2007 Elections | 14 — Voting Problems In The 2008 Elections | 15 — Election Web Sites And Problems |
In dealing with election issues, and particularly with mail in elections, one is forced to place a great deal of trust in election officials. Most are hard working, honest, and care deeply about honest elections and the preservation of ballot secrecy. But, as with any process in human affairs, there are some whose greed, arrogance, lust, or simple incompetence make them amenable to fraud and rigging elections. When that happens, and happen it does, our republic is at risk. There is also the grave problem that it is extremely difficult to separate simple incompetence from deliberate fraud in elections.
Our objective here is to present examples of such fraud, ignorance, corruption, misuse of public funds, and simple incompetence, as a warning about placing too much trust in a public official when it comes to handling elections. As President Ronald Reagan put it: "Trust, but verify."
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