Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

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“Who watches the watchmen?” (The image is a joke based on the meaning of “watchmen.”)

Listening to On The Media’s latest (Fri, 1Nov24) talking about the conspiracy theorists' (CTs') wild actions around the election fraud falsehood.  I’m not an expert on the process of vote counting, but maybe we need to make it even more public?  My point here isn’t to increase the likelihood of a nutcase entering.  But to insert a layer of observers of the observers.

A good friend of mine is a lawyer who, every election, volunteers to observe polls, waits on stand-by to go to court, and uses their talents to insure a free and fair election.  My wondering here is “can adding an outward-facing layer of observers prevent some of the dumb shit like “Why is that [letter carrier] delivering baskets of ballots?”  The CT who posted that now-viral video got away with it, while the letter carrier was dox’d by the CTs.

I’m trying to add more needles in the haystack.  To add eyes not on the pollworkers, but on the obeservers of those pollworkers.  To begin to track where some of the lies are going to start, because inevitably, they will start there.

There’s a million things wrong with this plan, and it certainly won’t work the way I imagine it.

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