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Dear Editor:
The similarities of the instant background check that is required when buying a firearm and the presidential election recount effort is striking.
First, the background check conducted by the National Instant Criminal Background System (NICS) isn't instant for a large percentage of the American population. You can be in a delayed status when buying a firearm if your name is the same as a known felon. The dealer, a Federal Firearms Licensee (FFL) calls NICS so the purchaser is either "cleared," "delayed" or "denied" before a firearm transfer can be completed. It is the "delayed" status that becomes the Catch-22 of this procedure. There is a "default clause" that after a three day delay the transfer can be completed without the call back from the NICS. Or the FFL never has to complete the transfer because of no call back from the NICS that may never call, so you are "denied" figuratively.
Enter the recount (instant background check) to clear, delay, or deny the voter (purchaser) of President-elect Trump (firearm). The voter must now receive a clear status (recount) because of the accusations of tampering and the voter being white supremacists (felon) creating a delayed status. There is no proof for the need of a recount, but it is being enabled. The inauguration (transfer) cannot legally be stopped, but now the recount becomes the Catch-22 (delay/deny).
This is not the fact, but a narrative -- a talking point to delegitimize (deny) this presidency. But not just to America, but the world stage.
William E. Eardley
East Liverpool