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No perfect system to monitor voting

I am amused at the debating over election "irregularities," aka voter fraud. Historically, it has existed to some extent in every U.S. election. It is human nature to cheat. It was outrageous in the 1850s. A county in Kansas had more voters than residents. A town copied the list of voters from a city in Ohio and used it for people to vote under false names. In the 1960s, Chicago was known as a city where the dead still voted. There has not been an election where fraud and "irregularities" changed the outcome.

Anyone who believes that there were no "irregularities" or fraud in 2020 is blindly naive, but anyone who believes that "irregularities" changed the outcome of the presidential election is blindly and terribly misinformed. There are more safeguards against "irregularities" and fraud in current times than there were many years ago, but nothing can ever be perfect.

Rich Lorimer

Streamwood

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