Safeguards, oversight ensures elections are fair and accurate -- despite what some claim

All Things Nebraska

Over the years, I’ve covered a few elections – probably more than I’d like to remember.

Back in the day, we didn’t get the wall-to-wall commercials slinging mud or the daily update on what the polls say.

But one thing hasn’t changed – elections are maybe the most observed, double checked and overseen functions of government.

Vote counting machines are double- and triplechecked. Each political party e…