The Unfortunate Failure of Weekend Warriors Expected to Uphold our Constitution James Mason , April 2001. B efore punch card machines, voting lever booths, and optical scanner machines with second chance technology, there was paper and pencil, a unique scribble a man s mark is his word. Before, if a person s vote was not discernable, or its identity in question, poll workers and volunteers would check it out. The intent of the voter is paramount in determining a voter s choice.
Technology is no excuse for abandoning the value of one person s vote.
Washington D.C. should have been besieged by the brave men of the local militias and our states National Guards at the end of December in 2000. This is what the draftsmen of the structure of our republic envisioned would happen, if for instance, an extremely close race for President required physical examination of ballots that were legally cast by citizens according to the laws of the state wherein those ballots were cast, and a partisan court of judges unprecedently intervenes in that state s constitutional business and chooses to order the lower court to stop examining the ballots as legally set forth and allowed in that state. Outrageous, motions the jaw-bone of the skull of Thomas Jefferson. An honorable National Guard commander would recognize this as an unprecedented constitutional crisis requiring a nationwide revote that he may be required to uphold by force. You were sitting on your couches happy that a pro-gun candidate from Texas was getting into the White House.