What is happening in our country from an election point of view is an absolute disgrace! We pride ourselves on being the leader of the free world. We send advisors all over the world in an effort to ensure fair elections in other countries. We understand the critical importance of free and fair elections to the future of our Constitutional Republic. Then we continue to reelect people to Congress and state offices who would throw it all away in order to gain power for themselves and their political party.
We stand idly by and watch as our elected officials turn our election process into a replica of a banana republic. If you think Congress, and elected representatives in the states, are going to change on their own you are seriously delusional. As soon as we know who the winners of this election are (I fear that will be sometime in December) we must start sending emails, making phone calls, and showing up at their town hall meetings. We must demand they lead the charge in keeping our electoral system safe, secure, dependable, and transparent. Elites bemoan low voter turnout. Low voter turnout is what you should expect when voters don’t have faith in the integrity of the system. The Federalist System demands that each state decide its own rules for holding elections. So we must get involved locally to clean up what has become an embarrassing mess. What follows are a few ideas of what we must demand from our elected representatives. When I say demand I mean we must tell them we will not reelect them if they don’t make these changes. Then follow through on those demands.
Federal elections are constitutionally designated as the first Tuesday, following the first Monday, in November of even numbered years. It shouldn’t sneak up on anyone. One of the reasons given for extending the period of in-person voting is convenience. They say having multiple days to vote will mean shorter lines each day thus it will be easier to vote. There is another solution to long lines. We could purchase more voting machines. If the current site has no room to expand the number of new machines we can open additional sites. They say additional days to vote in person will increase voter turnout. Yet it has had little impact on voter turnout since it first started in the early 1990’s. From the election in 1936 through 1968, with two exceptions, between 60% and 64% of voting age Americans voted. The number of states that have allowed early in-person voting since Texas started it in the early 1990’s has grown to 36. From 1992 through 2016 the range of voting age Americans who actually voted was between a low of 49% to a high of 58%! The extra days have NOT resulted in increased voter turnout. Perhaps more people would vote if they thought their votes would actually make a difference. If ever there was a year that early voting could be dangerous to our country it is 2020. Some say that as many as 40 million people, perhaps as many as 30% of the total who will ultimately vote, have already voted. Recently we received a lot of information that questions the integrity of Joe Biden. A computer owned by Biden’s son is being analyzed by the FBI for money laundering. An eye witness says he has proof that Joe Biden was knowingly involved. That proof has been turned over to authorities. Early voting hard-line democrats won’t care. They would vote for Biden if he was caught holding a smoking gun over a dead body while snorting dope in a whorehouse. But I wonder how many people who voted for Biden because they hate Trump would like to get their vote/ballot back. By having one Election Day everyone would theoretically go to the polls with the opportunity to know everything that every other voter knows. What is happening before our eyes is the perfect reason why we should have one Election Day on the first Tuesday following the first Monday in November of even numbered years.
Those of us who live in states that offer only in-person voting, and absentee voting, must fight to keep it that way. Let’s fight to pass laws that mandate the final date an absentee ballot can be counted is Election Day. In Michigan it was decided that ballots postmarked by Nov. 2 could be counted for up to 14 days after Nov. 3, and could be picked up by complete strangers for delivery. Counting ballots for 14 days is ludicrous. There is no place in Michigan that it takes 14 days to deliver the mail. The second part about strangers picking up ballots is a felony in Michigan. Both are forbidden by the Michigan Constitution. That didn’t keep a Court of Claims Judge from deciding she had the right to supersede Michigan law. Thank God the Michigan Supreme Court stepped up and reminded her that her job was to interpret the law, not make it. This idea of the blanket mailing of ballots has fraud written all over it. Judicial Watch (JW) is suing a number of states for not complying with the 1993 National Voter Registration Act (NVRA). The NVRA requires states to remove people from their voter registration rolls if the have moved, died, or are otherwise ineligible to vote. JW claims that 378 counties in the U.S. have a total of 2.5 million more voters registered than they have voting age people! Fraud has already occurred in many places. There is a difference in mail in ballots and absentee ballots. Absentee ballots are requested by voters over their signature. They must fill it out and return it with a second signature. If the signatures match the vote counts. A mail in ballot is not solicited, can be filled out by anyone, and can be signed by anyone because there is no signature to match it against. And when you allow paid political activists to go door to door gathering ballots, signed or otherwise, you have a recipe for harming the integrity of our election. We have to make this nonsense stop, ASAP.
The only way we can expect these problems to be remedied is to get directly involved. Stay tuned to this blog. After the election I will offer a plan of attack, including sample letters, that we citizens can use to direct the actions of our power hungry elected representatives. Thank you for taking the time to read this blog. Please tell your friends about it. We will need all of them to insure we get the changes necessary to protect our elections.