When an election result is challenged, what happens? They hand-count the ballots. It is regarded as the best way to determine the actual tally and, therefore, the winner. Nye County in Nevada decided that, too, so the county commissioners voted to hand count all ballots. No more machines. The ACLU sued.
“This isn’t about being partisan. It is about protecting our democracy,” stated Athar Haseebullah, the Executive Director of ACLU of Nevada. Haseebullah says Nye County’s new hand counting of ballots approved by Nye County Commissioners in a 5-0 vote back in March raises serious concerns.
“They had no real processes for how they wanted to do it, it was totally disorganized and chaotic and all fueled by conspiracy theories,” Haseebullah asserted.
As a spreader of conspiracies, the ACLU ought to know. That once respected organization has devolved so wholly into a partisan bag man for the political Left you can’t even rely on them to protect free speech. Objecting to hand-counting is just another opportunity to push a different narrative.
The ACLU says it is almost unheard of not to use machines to count ballots and instead rely on people to count them by hand.
Almost.
And I get it. The ACLU thinks (or wants you to believe that) it is impossible to count the entire county accurately and in a timely fashion, but claiming this is about protecting our Democracy (which they do) is absurd. Hand counting is the last resort for ensuring an accurate result. During the 2000 elections, the Left made us wait for weeks while they tried to win Florida for Al Gore to protect “our” Democracy.
To this day, they claim the Supreme Court elected GW Bush in 2000 when all they did was force Florida to comply with State election laws.
Nye County, Nevada’s election law states that it will hand-count all ballots. It might not be pretty, but if they get the correct result, then Democracy is served.
As for the ACLU, they might win their suit or get a stay on the new plan (you can never tell with judges), forcing the county to use Skynet to tabulate election winners. Either way, expect the same treatment if you attempt to implement a similar policy in your neck of the election woods.3
