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Doral, Florida - The Election Integrity Brigade of Miami-Dade County is ever vigilant in protecting our voting rights. This week we attended the Logic and Accuracy testing of voting machines conducted in public by the Supervisor of Elections.

In Florida we have paper ballots as the empirical basis for the tabulations produced by vote-counting machines, which is not the case in all jurisdictions. Hand-counting those paper ballots is an option that should be explored in Florida, but for now we rely on the machines. Compared with foreign jurisdictions, American jurisdictions have many more candidates and races on the ballot. For example, in Harris County, Houston, Texas, there are regularly around 100 races on each ballot. That is because we often elect judges as well as various other offices in state and local government. This is the strongest argument given for keeping voting machines.

It is important not only that voting machines count accurately and quickly, but also that they avoid being connected with the Internet and other machines from which their count may be manipulated. Last weekend elections were held in Venezuela, a country where counts kept on interconnected voting machines have been manipulated.

The voting machines in Miami-Dade County are not supposed to be interconnected, except one time at the close of voting on Election Day. Then the machines send their final results via wireless communications to their home base at the Supervisor of Elections.

The Election Brigade also participates in recruiting and conducting poll-watching on Election Day and during Early Voting. This weekend we participated in a poll-watching webinar, with nearly 1,000 participants, conducted by the Republican National Committee and featuring United States Senator Rick Scott, running for re-election this year, and State Senator Joe Gruters.

If you don’t want America to become a banana republic like Venezuela, where the National Electoral Council has fraudulently declared President Maduro the winner of last weekend’s election, then election integrity is essential work.

In addition to poll-watching and checking voting machines, the Election Brigade also reviews voter rolls and checks voter registrations. The largest unresolved problem for election integrity in Florida this year is that, despite at least two years of warnings from grassroots conservatives, the Secretary of State and Supervisors of Elections have no mechanism to confirm whether registered voters, already registered or registering anew, are United States citizens.

This gap is particularly important at a time when the open-borders policy of the Obama-Biden 3.0 administration has infiltrated thousands of illegal aliens into Florida. If we wind up with President Kamala in November, this oversight by our Republican establishment will likely have served as a big contribution.

The Secretary of State is now scrambling to correct this oversight with information from the United States Department of Homeland Security.

Candidates for Republican Executive Committee

In order to address failings like this by the Republican establishment, the Election Brigade is supporting a slate of candidates for the Republican Executive Committee of Miami-Dade County. These candidates pledge to expand the number of precinct committeemen, so that we can recruit more poll-watchers, voter-registrars, door-knockers and other political activists. This will give the Republican party greater weight in Miami-Dade County, so that it will field a candidate for every position, and support the candidates that make the high personal commitment of running for public office.

The local Republican party is run like a private social club: Members Only! This is no way to run a political party. In Chicago, where your columnist grew up, if a member of the public attempts to attend a meeting of the Regular Democrat Party, he will be denied entry with the retort: “We don’t want nobody that nobody sent.” Entrance is available only by invitation. They do not want to be infiltrated by people that they have not vetted, because they are running a shady organization that plays fast and loose with the rule of law. The situation is similar with the Republican Party in Miami-Dade County: La Cosa Nostra.

The Republican primary elections will take place on Tuesday, August 20, with two weeks of early voting. Vote in person and during Early Voting. Don’t wait until Election Day, when events may prevent you from voting, and don’t trust the United States Postal Service. They are even less trustworthy than the United States Secret Service. It is foolish to trust your ballot to the USPS!