A wearable camera is needed for Election Judges and Workers to ensure Election Integrity
It’s an important election in November and in a state like Minnesota with no Photo ID Voter laws we need to have election integrity, which is something we’ve never had in Minnesota on election day.
Remember in 2008 when Norm Coleman won by 700+ votes? After the so-called recount in which the unscrupulous election judges and lawyers added about 1000 ACORN alleged votes that had been in various places like someone’s car as some reports stated. Al Franken, the Angry Clown, stole the election by 312 votes.
At the time the technology for body cameras didn’t exist at a reasonable cost. Now it does.
We implore that cameras be employed at every election location and shift that there isn’t a balance of party affiliated election workers and judges present. Eventually all locations should have coverage.
Usually the stuffing of ballots happens in the large cities where sometimes there are more voters in an area that normally doesn’t have a high registered voter count.
When absentee ballots are counted sometimes flaws are overlooked. Spoiled ballots are sometimes mishandled and are actually counted.
We would like to see the handling of the spoiled ballots and what happens when an absentee voter after voting weeks before votes again on election day at the polls.
We imagine Joe Mansky, the Ramsey County Elections Manager, will blow a gasket if he has to wear a body camera all day long during the counting of ballots or in the case of another recount. The updated Ramsey County Elections Page has lost some of it’s integrity. The Ramsey County precinct maps have much less surface street detail than the maps that were there before the “Update.” We were told that there would be a list of polling locations up on their site in May 2016. That time has passed and that hasn’t happened. Maybe Mr Mansky should have a job performance review?
This camera is like a micro-managing boss looking over ones shoulder.
Perhaps this would be a better position. An Election worker could wear it on their shirt to show when a voter checks in. Or perhaps all 3 locations wired for sound.
It is a question of trust. We trust the police, we don’t trust election workers in this state who are partisan DFLers.