Within a few days following the election of 1960, Richard Nixon knew that he lost Illinois to JFK because of cheating; and therefore Nixon did not get elected as president (until 1968). Credentialed Historians have since confirmed that plenty of cheating occurred in Illinois, primarily in Cook County (Mayor Daly's Chicago, for the most part). Unlike President Trump, Nixon chose to leave DC as a well-behaved good sport. This doesn't mean that Nixon was right, and that Trump was wrong....just different responses to the same problem. At least Nixon knew that JFK was NOT a socialist.
Even when government employees have acted honestly, there has probably never been a perfectly conducted election in America whenever there have been at least 10,000 ballots to count.
When Trump announced in 2016 that he wanted to "drain the swamp," he meant that there were too many people on the government payroll; and that he specifically had disdain for "Beltway Insiders" in particular. These "swamp dwellers" probably were not happy with that label, nor for the possibility that the Efficiency Expert (Trump) would eliminate their jobs, via the directive to his cabinet that "if you want a new regulation, bring me TWO existing regulations that should be eliminated." So the Swamp got revenge during 2020, didn't they?
To end the credibility gap regarding elections, Corporate America must play a greater roll than just selling the counting machines to government. "Public-private" partnership is the answer. All people who are vote-collectors and/or vote counters should be from Corporate America. Those who certify the results should still be the SAME people from each of the fifty states, usually known as "Secretary of State," or "Attorney General."
"The business of America is business." Private enterprise always is more efficient than government work. Drain the swamp.
Drain the swamp
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