Saturday, November 19, 2022

Something is rotten in Denmark

 Today is Saturday, the 19th of November.  The general election was the 8th.  Yesterday I read somewhere that “the Republicans had gained control of the House.”  Apparently there were several races around the country that were still being tallied. Among these was the race in Colorado for Representative Boebert’s seat. Surprisingly there is no court filing from the challenger.

A Red Wave was predicted, and I think one occurred. Look at Florida. The state of Florida restricts vote by mail to ten days prior to the election.  Drop boxes are also restricted. Third party organizations are restricted from registering voters. There are no same-day voter registrations.  Everything that was placed in effect in so many states during the campaign of 2020, is restricted in Florida. 


Florida made strides toward securing the election.  Florida had a red wave. Other states did not make any effort toward securing elections. Other states did not have the wave. 


All the poling prior to the midterm indicated that Republicans were going to have a landslide in the House and were favored to take the Senate.  They did not take the Senate and have one of the slimmest majorities in the House in the history of the country.  


How is this possible? Voting machines are used in every district in the country. Outside of a few remote villages in Alaska, why aren’t these results known within a tiny fraction of a percent in just a few hours? Reporters exhilarated over the continued counting, “the (Democrat) continues to close the gap…” This, after days of counting and no mathematical possibility of victory. Even here in Kansas, the race for Attorney General should have been called far earlier than it was, all because the Democrat was moderately close.  I don’t even think it was within a margin of error, though it would have been within a margin of fraud (if it had been a race worth noticing outside of Kansas). 


This nonsense started with the first "motor voter" laws.  Simply enough, you could register to vote when you got your driver's license renewed.  The problem is that not all who have driver's licenses are eligible to vote.  States issue those to both legal and illegal aliens. Anyway, this passed as the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 and things have pretty much gone downhill since.  The left fights any attempt to secure the elections, including purging voter rolls. And don't mention requiring identification. Here are a few things identification is required to do: open a bank account, apply for a credit card, cash a check, drive a car, get on a plane, get a passport, buy cigarettes, buy alcohol, buy a gun, get on a military post, apply for benefits, write a check in a store, use a credit card in a store (at least when the cashier cares enough to ask). But somehow, requiring one in order to vote brings accusations of racism and Jim Crow. 


The only rational reason to NOT tighten up the security of the vote is to make cheating (aka FRAUD) easier.


This is exactly why so many in the country no longer trust the elections. 


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