The most important role of election officials is to make sure that an election
a) takes place.
b) is administered fairly.
c) is inexpensive.
d) finishes on time.

I believe the answer is: B) is administered fairly.

The election officials had the duty to ensure That the result of the election is not tainted, and the people who manage to won the election are the one that genuinely trusted by the citizens and the system to represent them in the government body.

This duty include things such as making sure all people who enter the booth are eligible for voting, and there is no intervention from another country should influence the election.

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in his book, the riddle of the rosetta stone, james giblin talks about how there was a young british polymath and physician named thomas young who made a lot of advances on the deciphering of the rosetta stone. he says that even though young made a lot of mistakes because he was working under false assumptions, he also made huge contributions like deciphering three out of the seven symbols (more than anyone else before him). young published his findings and continued his good work but he wasn't able to progress much further due to some unfavorable situations, he still laid the basis for many other scholars and of course for the man who has been generally known to have deciphered it, jean-françois champollion