Open & Fair Elections: Is It Wishful Thinking?

Article by Diana Olvedo-Karau

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Diana Olvedo-Karau
  The Uvalde County Republican Women met on Thursday, June 22, 2023 for their regular monthly meeting.  There was a great turnout of members and guests that participated in an educational presentation and spirited discussion on the topic of Election Integrity.
   Jarrett Woodard was one of the presenters, invited back to once again share with new members and visitors on the issue of Elections Voting Systems.  The group also heard, via video, information on the outsourcing of elections to private corporations.  A practice that is making elections vulnerable to being compromised.
  The 4 areas that can be comprised in an election when the practice of outsourcing to private corportions exists:
Voter Registration – Controls number of ballots in circulation
Voter Validation – Controls which ballots get counted
Tabulation – Controls how ballots get counted
Reporting – Controls what totals are seen
  These components of the election process are vulnerable to manipulation and actually disenfranchise voters.  So yes, disenfranchisement of voters exists and it exists within the very system that most Americans know and trust.  Why, because private corporations program the system to only show you what they want you to see and test only what they want you to test.  American elections now belong to the corporations hired to administer them and are no longer safeguarded to keep them accurate, transparent and auditable.