Comments by "Louis Giokas" (@louisgiokas2206) on "Lessons on Elections and Faith from Unexpected Places || Peter Zeihan" video.
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Elections in the US are generally very clean. I have served as an election judge in the past and a lot of care is taken to ensure votes are counted and counted accurately.
On the other hand, there are areas where there might be some issues. From what I can tell, these are not enough to sway national elections. People are, I assume, aware of the quips regarding elections in Chicago. Well, I live in the suburbs, and I used to have a business associate who lived in Chicago who claimed to vote for his grandfather. He told me he made sure that his deceased grandfather was kept on the election rolls and then voted twice. I have no proof of this. This is what he told me, in all seriousness, but it is plausible. I could tell some other stories of stuff that goes on in Chicago.
There have been issues in elections, including presidential elections, in the past. I read an authoritative biography of LBJ, and it was mentioned that people were paid for votes in places like Texas. Many of these people were migrants. This was not considered a controversial statement. Just saying.
I firmly believe in in-person elections, with photo ID, with absentee ballots only for specific reasons. I have voted absentee, but only because I was living on another continent on a foreign assignment for a large US company. In Illinois we have in person polling starting, I believe, three weeks prior to election day. I usually vote on election day but have used the other service on occasion.
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