One Idaho county might just have a way to restore trust in elections, after questions still linger about the possibility of fraud and errors influencing the outcome of various races.
After the controversy over the outcome of the 2020 election, Ada County officials recognized the need to rebuild trust in election processes and began looking into ways to promote transparency in the system, according to a New York Times report.
Voters wanted to know who had built the county’s voting machines. What software were they using? Did any parts came from China? Were the machines vulnerable to hacking? Outlandish claims were spreading in conservative circles across the country that votes had been discarded or altered in a coordinated effort to rig the election.
Trent Tripple, a Republican who had worked in the Ada County clerk’s office and was elected to lead it…
