Election Fraud in Seneca County?

The weakness of "proof."

Fact: More Republicans voted in the Seneca County Republican primary than there are registered Republicans in the County.

Was something fishy was going on in this year’s election?  Were those “elites” at it again?  Fine turning their craft of election fraud?  Getting ready for the Fall general election?

A plot? Well, no!

Actually, voters could choose which ballot to take (Republican or Democratic) and many who had either not voted in a primary in the past (in the system as Independents) or who had taken a Democratic ballot in the past, asked for the Republican ballot.  Many perhaps like the gentleman who asked a poll worker which Party Trump belongs to, so he could choose that party’s ballot.

But, as long as you don’t know this “rest of the story,” it appears suspect and helps spread conspiracy narratives. 

We can, and should, prepare the next generation to manage this kind of “evidence.”

We need to prioritize a rigorous examination of “proof.”  It is not just formal logic.  It is not simply “evidence.”  It is contextual understanding.  It involves imagination—an openness to alternative “readings.”  It involves experience, the Bayesian approach that privileges prior knowledge. 

Otherwise we live with “proofyness.”