DOTC: Minor Errors Don’t Equal Fraud

Dan of the County (responding to Kage Mann request): I don’t believe it would be the proper role of a county clerk or other election official to suggest a “fair” way to resolve an election, close or otherwise, outside of the actual election process itself. I can’t even imagine nor would I want to imagine what kind of alternative process you might have that would supersede the actual voters. This was a close election and I continue to state I believe it was a fair and overall well-run election.  As in any endeavor of this scope, there can be errors and we continually try to learn from them.  However, errors or mathematical discrepancies between various database reports certainly do not equal fraud or corruption in most people’s book. You can choose to believe this or not, but if the totals for the two candidates were reversed and Mr. Brannon had come out five votes ahead in the final count my position would be exactly the same and I would be standing behind our work product (not the individual candidates) just the same as now.

Question: Have the conspiracy theorists succeeded in their long quest to diminish Dan of the County’s reputation in the eyes of his constituents?