How I Came to See That the Election Needs to be Audited and How You Can Too

[Coyotl]

How I Came to See That the Election Needs to be Audited and How You Can Too
Nov 29

As I watched the election results come in on November 8, 2016, the friends and family that I was following along with became increasingly frantic. I stayed calm.

“She’s got this.” I told them. I knew what the exit polls said. I knew what the early voting results indicated. I knew what the large voter turnout and long lines indicated.

I added up the remaining electoral votes and reassured everyone.

“She’s going to win Florida, she’ll win Wisconsin, she’s got Michigan and Pennsylvania. Then all the big west coast states will put her over.”

And then, she didn’t. North Carolina remained too close to call. Wisconsin started to flip. Florida started to flip. States where Clinton had a strong lead going into election day and in the exit polls started to flip.

“This doesn’t make sense,” I told my friends. “It’s not right.”

I woke up the next day expecting to hear that miscounted votes had come in and the situation had been corrected. ...........

[Lucinda]

1. KNR Thank you!

[Raster]

2. You are correct! The election results for Florida, Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania...

...DO. NOT. MAKE. SENSE.

And add North Carolina to that list. As a Democrat, I am damned tired of watching shaky election results being trumpeted as "mandates" and other worthless labels. I am tired of the sinking pit in the bottom of my stomach that we Democrats and our candidates are yet again, getting the shit end of the stick.

I. AM. OVER. IT.

[colsohlibgal]

3. We Should Audit Every Election

It is stunningly amazing that democrats, really everyone, puts up with our hodgepodge, haphazard election procedures. We should have confidence everything is on the up and up but nobody paying any attention could have any confidence at all.

There are ways to make it foolproof but there stunningly is no real push to get there as democrats get hosed right and left. That is the smoking gun, all the surprising results, which don't match the exit polling, are in favor of the conservative candidate or issue.