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Republicans want to act like every single instance of something is reason to overturn the election but the system was never funded or run to catch every single possible error. It was setup to run correctly enough so that the proper person was put into office.
The sentence above is the issue. There is no reason an election should be run well enough to factor in errors and get the right person in office. There shouldn't be a single error in 2021. I don't think the election should be over turned, but I think your election system is broken and should be reformed. The fact that we are still discussing this and people have valid points on both sides is pretty nuts. There isn't a valid argument that this was a weird election. Heaps of rules were changed late due to the pandemic. I personally think voter ID and no mass mail in votes is a pretty reasonable request. If you genuinely don't believe that more votes were counted in error as a result of this election on both sides I think you are pretty naïve. I will call it right now that there will be a switch back in the Senate for Republicans and we will hear claims of voter fraud and election issues from Democrats.
The phrase there was no significant voter fraud to change the election results isn't good enough. It should be there was no election fraud because we have processes that cover those issues because we live in a first world country. Something as basic as ID's and requesting mail in votes is a good start.
You have never worked with large systems, spread over large areas, with large silo'd groups. This idea that there should be no error is unattainable and to actually try for that would be a huge waste of money. There wasn't one state where 0.1% error would have made a difference. It is nice to say that there should be no error but that shouldn't even be a real goal. The goal is the error shouldn't affect the election, which it never has. Everyone wants to claim that the election was rigged because of xyz but I don't think most really has an idea of what 1 out 1000 fraudulent votes looks like. 1 out of 1000 votes would be so obvious and massive that it would be impossible to hide and even at that amount, it wouldn't have swayed the end result.
If you wanted to tighten up the election, the easiest way to do it would be just to focus on the 4 or 5 states from the previous election that were close. All the other states are lopsided enough that it is unlikely any fraud could affect the result.
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