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@Lakewhut
Who cares?
In 1972 Sarah Rxxxxx, the comptroller of my father’s corporation embezzled more than $3,ooo,oooo (a lot of money back then) and contributed it to the Nixon Presidential campaign. That doesn’t mean it was a rigged election.
I resent your false accusations. I am an Asst. Registrar of Voters and this November 8th was the 50 year I worked as an election official. We put in an 18 hour day and every D working is paired with an R of the same position to make sure nothing is rigged. Or polls close at 8 PM. We were off 9 votes. the R asst Registrar and I working under direct supervision of the UNAFILIATED Moderator (the official in charge of the polling location) required 2 hours to find the arithmetic mistakes that had been made in the checkers’ books and account for spoiled ballots and two that could not be machine read. Only after balancing cold we drive together in one car with the tabulator machines to Town Hall where he Registrars put them under lock and key. Yesterday I sent three hours in a recount of another polling location where the election had a margin of 11 votes. After examining every ballot, running them through the tabulator machines and explaining why three absentee ballots could not be counted (they were in inner envelopes that the voter had not signed or sealed. as required by law), the final count was a majority of 1 vote. There was no miscount on Election Day, but a ballot rejected by the machine for an overcount (more than one candidate with markings in a column) was examined by the Registrars of both parties to see if voter intent could be established. The voter had blackened a circle, realized it was for the wrong candidate, put an X through it and blackened a second circle. The voter wrote on the ballot that the X was to invalidate the mistaken vote. Machines can’t read and count these markings, but in a recount every ballot is hand examined and if both Registrars can agree on intent the vote is counted. The voter should have handed the ballot with the error to a ballot clerk, it would have been marked spoiled, but into a sealed bag and a fresh ballot handed to a voter. At my polling location there were more than three thousand in person votes cast and only 21 spoiled ballots.
You and the election deniers need t stop making false accusations of voter fraud and impugning the reputation of the many thousands of dedicated election officials in the USA.
Every POLL WORKER swears (or affirms) a Constitutional Oath regarding their position and is subject to Federal Criminal prosecution if they misbehave.

Donating stolen funds to any campaign does not mean the election was rigged