Brian

This past week, I've run into a couple of essays on Medium that has contributors dancing in the streets because the R's have a 32% approval rating. They just don't get that current internal R elections have and are going to replace many capable middle managers with sycophants who will not sign off on many poll results in 2022. Even if the 2022 election is a 68-32 split, this election will not be credible with much of the 32%. Sorry I don't have a short-term solution here.

I did see the struggle with keeping voters' list up-to-date in Canada between elections; both in the parties' internal membership list and the general elections. I could only surmise that such lists were, at best, only 98% accurate (probably closer to 95%) and open to abuse by campaign volunteers.

If something went wrong in a particular polling station, seldom were the results overturned. Rather the "inspectors" compiled the evidence, then tried to write new rules for next time.

The design of the TDG takes out the issues of voters' list ever affecting the election of the second and higher tier. Yes, there might be some amateur administrative errors at the lowest level that could put Candidate B over Candidate A. But chances are Candidate B is a reasonable person.

But the TDG is a long-term solution.