Right now, it takes a cadre of lawyers and lengthy court battles for access to each little thing.

Fulfilling requests for information or records access should become easy, quick, and routine.

Given the vast number of election deniers we have seen, can you imagine if every one of them decided to amble down to the county courthouse and demand to see the election returns? All of them? And have to have a human monitor from both parties to make sure they didn’t deface ballots, steal entries, or otherwise change the election tallies that has already occurred?

We make people go through the courts for a reason, the same as searching your house. In that case it’s “reasonable suspicion”, not just some guy wants to go rooting around through your underwear drawer. Without that, it’s chaos.

The parties have the financial resources to deal with this, witness the flood of lawyers that descended on Florida in 2000, or the firehose of false court cases that resulted in 2020, the vast majority of which were denied or overturned. Frankly, I don’t see a problem worth overturning 250 years of experience because a few cranks want to complain about an election they so clearly lost.

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