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• The Frankencount (Score: 4, Insightful) by canopic jug on Saturday November 21 2020, @04:27PM

  by canopic jug (3949) on Saturday November 21 2020, @04:27PM (#1080187) Journal

  The state of Georgia has already certified the counts, the results are not going to be changed. That is not the issue I am pointing out, even if both branches of the Republicrat party are annoyed. Again, whether people are happy with the results or not does not affect the importance of ensuring a reliable and sound process. From the article from The Nation linked to above,

  As Miller wrote in his essay, “Audits must be sufficiently well-organized and rigorous that they do not potentially risk becoming yet another ‘political football’ for partisans to argue over; the whole point of a post-election audit is to produce clear evidence that reduces uncertainty—not to give politicians a fresh set of new ‘irregularities’ to argue about.”
    ^{from Why Georgia’s Unscientific Recount ‘Horrified’ Experts:Observers, including the inventor of the auditing process used by the state, were skeptical of a measure seemingly aimed at placating the GOP [thenation.com]}

  Methods need to be rolled out to ensure veracity, accuracy, and transparency. What is in place now does not allow for any of that and is instead used as a political football for tribalists to argue for or against, depending on whether their tribe appeared to have won or lost the most recent elections. It's a difficult situtation to fix in part because of the tribalism.

  In the long term, failure to address these issues only further undermines faith in the elections making it harder to convince the losers when they have lost.

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