Elections, like corporations, have books everyone can see to make an election or investment decision.
Corporations have a cash flow report, balance sheet, income statement, and the supporting material needed to properly inform an investor. If these don’t match, hundreds of Wall Street types immediately pick up on it. It is possible to make a bad investment decision, but if a company publishes deliberately false financials, the CEO and CFO visit the clink.
Remember Sarbanes-Oxley? You can bet every public company CEO does.
Election records begin with the voter registry.
A voter, candidate, election official or a curious person with too much time on their hands can review these. They are usually available to candidates and political parties; sometimes costing thousands of dollars — sometimes free. Depends on the state.
The hidden set of books contains the ballot and phantom and address inventory.
Speaking of Cooking the Books!!
This guy has been found guilty of stealing from the taxpayers in the Town of Berlin and is sentenced to 6 months in jail and has to serve 30 days.
Jeff Fleetwood is currently the the Town Manager for the Town of Delmar and they still have him on the payroll all this time!! They should have fired him immediately or or put him on administrative leave without pay as soon as they found out about this criminal theft scheme. They gave him time to cook the books and hide the evidence in Delmar if he was stealing from them! What the heck is wrong with those elected people in Delmar!! They have a criminal running their town!! Poor leadership!!