A bad recipe

Well, the local elections are over in Montana, and I’m sure there will be some controversial results, even if there are not any. I mean, it just seems that somebody’s got to find fault with something even if it’s imaginary. I’ve been thinking about this column for over a year, ever since the Montana Election Integrity Project (MEIP) came out with their “canvass” of 4347 Montana voters to show how screwed up our elections are. (Go to mtelectionintegrity.org/canvas) It’s taken me that long to write this because I just couldn’t figure out where to begin because there was so much wrong with it from a scientific standpoint.

Based on their canvass of those 4347 Montana voters, MEIP figures there were 120,261 what they call “invalid” votes in the 2020 Montana election and that’s not to mention some 196,370 “invalid” voter registration files. They talked to those 4347 voters about 13 months after the 2020 election and based on what the voters told them got the facts, or at least the facts as the voters could remember them more than a year after they voted. MEIP compared the voters’ answers about when they sent their ballots in with the database that the Secretary of State keeps on ballots received and if the answer was different from what the SOS had, then it was proof positive that there was dirty work afoot.