Observations of a voting judge

Thursday, December 10, 2020

Our county voting officials should be very proud of the way our voting occurred in Cape Girardeau County. The Cape officials should be able to pat themselves on the back, yell from the rooftops and pound their collective chests because of the way our elections went. However, they won't and/or can't because they are guided by professional conduct. However, I can boast for them. They set up a team approach, and I was on the one of those teams. I served for almost two weeks through Nov. 3. This letter is not about politics. It is, however, a letter to reassure all voters that your vote counted. If you listen to the Washington folks, we didn't have a fair election anywhere. That is not true in Cape County. For more than 200 years we have held elections that worked, and so did this one. You may not like the outcome, but our county held a fair and accurate election.

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