Iowa’s Caucus Failure Is A Glimpse Into Our (Near) Future
2/4/20
from The Gray Area:
2/4/20:
This Iowa caucus mess from Monday is only the beginning. You will see this kind of issue and debate regarding credibility of elections from now through the November elections - which will also be a mess.
- There is a lot going on around elections, voter registration, voter suppression, voter fraud, voter turnout, protection against foreign interference and hacking that will come together this year in a dramatic and destructive fashion.
- There are technology trials, like the one in Iowa, going on to supposedly help tabulate and communicate results faster.
- There are election tactics like Democrat 'ballot harvesting' in California in 2018 that will expand nationally in 2020.
- There is widespread voter fraud. 1.5 million people that have been identified either voting in more than one state or are dead.
- There are systems being tested to protect against hacking and interference.
- There are technological tools being tested that can improve voter turnout without them having to turnout, which is fraught with fraud possibilities.
- There is over-hyped fear about foreign interference.
- There has been repeated references by the House Managers in the Impeachment Trial to election interference in November.
- There are those who would have all national elections taken away from the states and nationalized. These people really enjoy it when states like Iowa mess up. Nationalizing elections is the biggest step to destroying America's trusted, for 250 years, election system. Even Barack Obama said you cannot affect our elections because they are too decentralized. He was correct. But, not if we change ti.