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RE: But, Hillary Won the Popular Vote!?!!@!@
Hi @goldgoatsnguns, I have no intentions to convince you how wrong your generalized assumption is but there is one point the US electoral system is lagging behind - there is no centralized body reviewing teh process. If almost every county can design and organize elections (ballots, electronic with or w/o paper trail - you organize a landscape nobody really can evaluate. On the other hand is exactly this one reason to be cautious, if one hears about massive fraud. That task is extremly hard to handle because you have so many independent stakeholders.
I disagree. It is easy to corrupt specific supervisors of elections in specific counties and use them to jigger results to particular ends. In fact, it's incredibly easy. Now, that said, there is plenty of honesty in the process. But it doesn't take systemic fraud to throw a national election. A few thousand votes in certain precincts in certain counties is all it takes to flip a state from red to blue and vice versa.
Then there is the embedded inertia in government systems under no compunction to improve their methods, properly update their voter rolls, etc. It's a system rife for manipulation even without local corruption.
And that means the whole thing is suspect from both an incentive and mechanistic perspective.
Thinking about a national election as one big system and that it all balances out is the wrong way of looking at it.
"wrong way of looking at it" is a strong comment. And in an environment of societal mistrust, division and fearmongering let´s not put to much hope in any given system or commission to fix what goes too far beyond elections. In other words - if you look for improvement in the electoral system itself, this here might be a good starting point for ideas: http://www.osce.org/odihr/elections/usa/280331?download=true
I didn't say I had faith that the commission would FIX anything. Only that it would help to continue red pilling those still under the illusion that the systems themselves aren't the problem.
Fixing the electoral system properly starts with putting the whole thing on the blockchain. Anything short of that is just whistling past the graveyard. Cryptos and their derivatives are going to make elections of the current form obsolete anyway.