Statistically Improbable Result Indicate Broken Laws
May the Colonies have a word here? The question is, are these election results statistically improbable? One piece to the US puzzle is our need to revamp election laws to be on par with technology. In the US and perhaps with you as well, until we fix our election laws to protect us from machine and human error, and HUMAN INTERPRETION of election results our election process will continue to be broken. The courts should not decide the people's choice. In 2006, it was the failure of Florida’s revised election laws that permitted an election with statistically improbable results to stand (18,000 undervotes). Our 2000's debacle with the pregnant chads resulted from failure to maintain the voting equipment properly. However it was the failure of Florida's election laws that permitted the chaos that followed. Had Florida’s election laws caught up with technology, both elections would have been an automatic re-do.
In the US we need tighter, better, wiser controls. What would the profit-conscious business world do? We must be more business wise. If we are to secure one voter, one vote…every-time integrity in our election process, we must implement high-bar guidelines for voting machine providers and elections officials to uphold. Moreover, until we fix our election laws we can be assured of continuing unacceptable results.
While the heroine in A MARGIN OF ERROR: BALLOTS OF STRAW scoffs at the notion of a silent coup marching across America in her fictitious voting machines…. It could happen more easily than any of us want to believe.
Lani Massey Brown, MARGIN OF ERROR: BALLOTS OF STRAW, political intrigue of a stolen election, available on Amazon.com.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
