Commentary: The risk to our elections is not fraud

Commentary: The risk to our elections is not fraud

By Ken Howell, Alexandria, Minnesota  It was 2:00 a.m. Wednesday morning when I finally left the Douglas County Courthouse. As an election judge, my Tuesday had started at 6:00 a.m., and after 8:00 p.m. when the polls closed, our group of nonpartisan judges discovered that we were one vote off. As is standard procedure, all the paper ballots are counted to make sure the number matches the count of the printout on the tabulator. It did not. So we…