The purpose of this review is to identify opportunities to improve the performance of Smith County on behalf of its customers — the taxpayers. In the course of the review, issues of superior performance are also analyzed with the intention of encouraging replication in similar public agencies. Finally, an opportunity analysis evaluates results both in relation to internally established objectives and externally established public purposes, both implicit and explicit. The underlying question addressed by the opportunity analysis is “how good is the public agency compared to what it could be?”
The Belief That There’s no Evidence of Voter Fraud is the True Conspiracy Theory
At the detriment of our public discourse and the accuracy and fairness of our elections, conversations regarding verifiable fraud in the voting process have been relegated to either always being believed or always shunned by the loudest, most hyper-partisan voices in the room. However, nearly none of the most hardened voices on either side of...