Election workers HAVE been harassed , threatened and what else….
BUT?
Elections have been held and certified…..
Some people in a certain political party may seek to intimidate….
But Americans KEEP coming out and voting irregardless…..
And?
The System’s keep working….
They are NOT ‘Rigged’……
America’s elections system, though battle-tested and proven over decades, is facing a political environment in which public distrust has quickly eroded voters’ confidence and threats to elections officials have raised new concerns.
Voter confidence has wavered significantly following the 2020 election after former President Donald Trump denied Joe Biden’s victory and promptly instructed his allies and supporters to demand the election results be overturned, leading to the violent events of Jan. 6.
That, despite an election that experts called the most secure in the nation’s history.
Increased federal funding to support election staff and technological upgrades, expanded verified paper ballots and post-election audits, they say, along with electing public servants who fundamentally believe in the elections process, have produced federal elections that are mostly resilient.
Experts from the Brennan Center, the States United Democracy Center and other groups who spoke with ABC News said elections succeed because of how diffuse they are — any disruption would likely occur at the local level but not affect counting on a state or national scale.
While fraud at any level is extremely rare, they say, there are more opportunities for interference at the local level because of thousands of different elections systems.
These experts also said the election system’s overall function and integrity falls squarely on the shoulders of one group — elections officials — from secretaries of state to election night volunteers — who despite an unprecedented number of recent threats have mostly risen to the occasion to ensure accuracy and fairness throughout the process….
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“The fact that election administration is so decentralized in the United States, it is an asset when it comes to election security, because it means that if there is some kind of disruption, often the impact of that is limited to just that local jurisdiction,” Ramachandran said.
“It really severely limits the impact of any mistakes or interference that does happen.”….
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The nation’s top intelligence and law enforcement agencies — from the Department of Justice, Department of Homeland Security — Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, U.S. Election Assistance Commission — have confirmed the security of the 2020 election, saying there were no significant instances of voter fraud.
The courts have also struck down cases alleging wide-scale voter fraud through legal challenges, Trump and his allies “have failed to discount a significant number of votes, block the certification of results, or overturn the results of any race,” according to a Brennan Center report.
“To date, [DOJ investigators] have not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome in the election,” said Trump Attorney General William Barr in December 2020……