Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Election Fairness at Risk

The Washington Examiner has a story about the Department of Homeland Security taking a "special interest" in the 2016 election. They are considering declaring it part of the nations "critical infrastructure" which then gives them control.

We trusted the IRS to deal fairly and later learned it didn't. We trusted the Justice Dept. to deal fairly and it didn't either. We trusted the Veterans' Administration to care for our vets, and it didn't. And we now know the Clinton State Department was for sale to anyone with a loose million or two.

Given the politicized nature of the Obama election as detailed above, would you trust the results of an election DHS ran? Do you believe Donald Trump could get a fair shake in that corrupt environment? I don't.

I am inclined to think our present decentralized election systems - all 50 of them - are less susceptible to systemic, centrally organized fraud. Hat tip to Drudge Report for the link.