Merrill ready to assist Georgia with election process — ‘We bring a particular set of skills that we think can be helpful’

As the presidential election of 2020 crawls to a finish, another election in a neighboring state is heating up.

The controversies surrounding the results will not be resolved; the harm done to our faith in the elections will still exist and the inflamed tension will not end any time soon.

Alabama, much to the chagrin of the national media and their Democrats, appears to have this situation handled.

We made voting easier for many, got the votes counted, and avoided any issue of suppression and chaos.

Now, Secretary of State John Merrill is ready to help Georgia avoid some of the issues they are currently seeing.
“We bring a particular set of skills that we think can be helpful to them and what they’re trying to do,” Merrill said Thursday on “The Dale Jackson Show.”

When it comes to accepting the results of the election, Merrill believes that finding massive occurrences of voter fraud that will overturn the call of an election in any given state is unlikely based on his experiences.

He advised, “You would have to find instances where thousands of votes needed to be set aside because of the way they were cast or introduced and the likelihood of that happening is just not very strong.”

But Merrill thinks some states have too many different systems internally and believe states should work to do this after this election to bring themselves in line with what Alabama has done.

Uniformity across counties in the states is key, according to Merrill.

He advised, “In all 67 counties of Alabama we do our elections the same way. They do that in Florida.”

The secretary of state noted that is something that isn’t done in Pennsylvania and Georgia, which he said is “a problem.”

My takeaway:

Merrill is ready to help in Georgia if needed, and that election is very important to the direction of this country — no matter where you stand. We should all want the results of any election to be tabulated fairly and all challenges exhausted. Until people believe that has happened, the trust in the electoral system will be degraded further than the last two elections have already done.

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Dale Jackson is a contributing writer to Yellowhammer News and hosts a talk show from 7-11 AM weekdays on WVNN.