Midterms expose Congress failure to fix 'deeply flawed' voting process
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The US midterm elections are clear proof that politicians have not been able to improve a seriously flawed electoral system.
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Campaign signs outside the election office in Prince William County (Virginia Mercury)
The US midterm elections revealed that politicians failed to fix a deeply flawed election process that places the US behind several other countries, according to Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity Director Daniel McAdams.
The US held its midterm elections on November 8, but the results of the senate races in Arizona and Nevada were not made public until after several days of ballot counting, largely because of complicated mail-in voting regulations and technical issues.
The US media did not predict Democratic incumbent Mark Kelly to win the race in Arizona until late Friday, and they did not predict Catherine Cortez Masto to win the race in Nevada until Saturday.
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The victory of Cortez Masto made it possible for the Democratic Party to keep control of the Senate. Even though Republicans are expected to take over the US House, close to 20 races are still undecided.
The US midterm elections were "competitive and professionally managed," according to OSCE election observers, despite the group's claim that some areas were off-limits to foreign observers.
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"How is it that in the US, which is supposed to be so technologically sophisticated, that counting the ballots takes days?" McAdams said.
"Democrats have perfected harvesting [mass collection of] Democrat ballots while Republicans, under a worthless leadership, have done nothing in two years to correct the deeply flawed voting system in many states."
McAdams argued that the Covid pandemic was the original justification for mail-in ballots but that the pandemic has passed and voting issues still exist.
He claimed that during the 1990s, he worked as an international election observer in the former Eastern Bloc and USSR for many years. Any failure to produce results on election day would be viewed by Western observers as highly suspicious and worthy of a fraud allegation.
McAdams noted that in Belarus in 2006, they observed the open counting of paper ballots in front of all election observers, as well as observers from political parties. "Everyone agreed on suspect ballots and the results were delivered to the regional authorities within a half hour," McAdams said.
He said that Stalin once quipped: "Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything." That is what can now be seen in the United States, McAdams added.
"Politics in the United States is broken," McAdams said. "We are ruled by an oligarchy."
Although it is expected that Republicans will win the majority in the House, many had expected a "red wave" to sweep the nation. Even former President Donald Trump expressed his disappointment in the results after seeing conflicting information from a large number of the candidates he supported.
