I was so excited yesterday to have finally reached the day when the first voting for our eventual democratic nominee would take place. All of us should have been informed of how the voting went in Iowa last evening but there was a glitch in the electronic reporting application. So as that is getting sorted out some 10 hours later we wait and wait. The pause as I like to think of it is just that, a pause so that we can make sure that the results from last evening are reported accurately. Personally I don't like the fact that the mechanism for reporting the results wasn't detected through a trial run and for that the head of this election process is to be held accountable and should be fired.
If my one job was to report results from the caucus and that job was underperformed then I would expect to be let go. Nothing new here except that the job this election head didn't perform properly affects the whole of our democratic nation at the moment. No hiding from this error in judgment. Be that as it may, the wait now for the fix to the glitch is what the rest of us are faced with. So let the proper authorities work the glitch out or go to another reporting process that is accurate and then release the results so that there is no doubt as to the accuracy. Surely some will call for a recount if possible given the pause but if so even the recount should give the same result.
It is almost like a silver lining in that our attention is now on all voting to be accurate going forward. Each and every state election head should be doubling up on making sure that their voting and reporting apparatus' are properly functionable. With all that has happened since 2016 and the questions that arose of foreign and domestic illegal influence the more vigilant we are the better for our votes being counted and reported correctly increase. So as this pause lingers on this morning look at it this way. Iowa and it's antiquated caucus system is a very small sample size for how our nation will vote so don't be overly angry at the error in the process but do be more vigilant in how our votes are counted everywhere else going forward.
If my one job was to report results from the caucus and that job was underperformed then I would expect to be let go. Nothing new here except that the job this election head didn't perform properly affects the whole of our democratic nation at the moment. No hiding from this error in judgment. Be that as it may, the wait now for the fix to the glitch is what the rest of us are faced with. So let the proper authorities work the glitch out or go to another reporting process that is accurate and then release the results so that there is no doubt as to the accuracy. Surely some will call for a recount if possible given the pause but if so even the recount should give the same result.
It is almost like a silver lining in that our attention is now on all voting to be accurate going forward. Each and every state election head should be doubling up on making sure that their voting and reporting apparatus' are properly functionable. With all that has happened since 2016 and the questions that arose of foreign and domestic illegal influence the more vigilant we are the better for our votes being counted and reported correctly increase. So as this pause lingers on this morning look at it this way. Iowa and it's antiquated caucus system is a very small sample size for how our nation will vote so don't be overly angry at the error in the process but do be more vigilant in how our votes are counted everywhere else going forward.
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