Did Your Vote Count?
By: Jd Adams
Tags: Storytelling, Voting, Writing, Politics

The Question is Not: “How to Stop the Steal” …

It’s “How to Stop the Circus?”

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The answer is too simple. The jokes too easy. Sometimes though, “simple” seems so confusing because it’s … well, it’s just that simple!

The Problem(s)

Every state has voting laws, rules, and regulations. This works for local, state, and federal elections, though how well it works for federal elections is arguable.

So I argue it does not. And I like to argue.

As I can be a sarcastic, argumentative bastard with a sense of humor, this could be an interesting read. Continue please.

I will argue this does NOT work any longer for Federal elections. Our country is too massive. We have outgrown the existing system. It’s like trying to put a diaper on a hippo with the runs.

In and of itself, our system has worked since inception, as again evidenced this year. It still works. But it has become cumbersome. There is a huge difference between cumbersome and corrupt, as again proven this year.

The use of the internet for voting is not a solution, though I have heard this being proposed. Man, talk about a potentially corrupted system… Online voting could easily be manipulated.

The promotion of walk-in voting is not a solution. Too many can’t. Contrary to complaints from our elected whiner-in-chief and MC of this ongoing circus of meat suits…

But … mail-in or absentee voting is the answer. (This should make some heads explode.)

Unheeded Warnings

Nobody expected we would have a President who would push his “extreme” agenda by claiming every loss he incurred was a direct result of some form of cheating, as absurd as that may be.

Interestingly, when Hitler was first running for election (1932) and during his first term after he was elected, declarations of cheating and a corrupt voting system was a basis for his rise to power.

And we were warned (but no-one listened) when Trump won in 2016, losing the popular vote by 3 million but winning the electoral vote. Few remember that the then President-elect railed on for weeks, and for months after he took office, about how he was cheated and that he actually won the popular vote (he didn’t).

Sound familiar? We were warned. We ignored the warning. I brushed it off as “that’s just the orange guy being the orange guy.” Or some such thing.

More Questions Arise…

Many also began to question (as did I), “How does he maintain that George Hamilton tan in the winter?” That, too, was a warning to us all. As we learned and came to realize, golf came first. He did his finest thinking and tweeting on the golf course. Who would have ever thought “golf” would replace the #42 as the answer to everything. Not I. Certainly not Douglas Adams.

Anyway, I digress. This complaining about corruption, and a corrupt media and voting system, was AFTER he WON the election. He was cheated. Got it.

But he wasn’t cheated. I was cheated. We were cheated. This entire country was cheated (albeit the dim-wit half, unwittingly). And neither “golf” nor “42” was to be the answer for this nation.

Our clown-in-chief would-be emperor, he should have been honored that 63 million citizens thought (albeit incorrectly) he was intelligent enough actually to run a country in 2016.

We the People were cheated. I want my taxes back. But then, the American public was going to be cheated no matter who was the winner in 2016.

But the stage was set. Starting up again this past Spring, the rhetoric began again, claiming he would lose only if he were cheated. Otherwise, there would be no possible way he could, or would, lose. Another warning. Ignored.

I have never in my life met or known anyone more afraid of losing than this meathead and his heavily armed (clown bats and paintball guns), very racist, and perplexed clown posse of Proud Boys and other associated nitwits.

Does he realize his followers, these fascist “Proud Boys,” are marching hand in hand, wearing their cute little yellow kilts, made by an LGBTQ company (Verillas) for the LGBTQ nation? Is he aware that the gay men of this country own and use the “Proud Boys” name?

Now there’s a comical thought to ponder. A gay army of armed fascists in yellow kilts. That actually is very worrisome in its weirdness.

For some reason, I think Hunter Thompson would be highly amused with all this. Hell, he’d probably attempt to join them, get his ass kicked, and then write a book about it. “Fear and Loathing in Yellow Skirts with Armed Meatheads.”

I actually wonder if our grifter-in-chief now wanders the hallowed halls of the White House at night, as did Nixon in his last days, drunk, entirely shit-faced, though not entirely dizzy from drink, but because he’s spiraling slowly down the toilet of Washington politics.

My guess is this could be his biggest fear. He forgot to drain the swamp. Instead, he built a hotel with a golf course and casino for the “Washington Swamp” to reside in complete luxury. After they were pardoned and their tax breaks went into effect, of course.

Spiraling into a continuing hell of having to play golf EVERY DAY with Rudy G. … watching his hair dye run down his face as he sweats and swings the club. More weirdness. That’s a picture that’s hard to forget.

So… What Do We Do?

Easy answer. We have 2 choices:

We watch the current circus play out in all it’s splendor, white supremacists marching and chanting about cheating and stolen elections. Never mind these are people who (inserted sarcasm here) have probably never voted in their lives prior to 2016 and 2020, but are now constitutional menses pretending to be part of the German Third Reich.

Or….

Or…. We as a nation demand Congress devise a bipartison system for federal elections, separate from all state and local elections. Develop an equal and fair system to be used for all federal elections that is a uniform system in every state and every locale where people are allowed to vote.

The Answer — Stop the Vote? No! Stop the Circus!

The response here is, as I said earlier, simple. One system for all federal elections. A system that passes muster of the Supreme Court and Congress. No descrepencies from state to state.

Numbers of polling locations by population density, state, and county.

Regulation of absentee ballots

Mail-in voting regulated with each state using identical systems

Regulated use of ballot boxes based upon population density

Identical Ballots and counting of ballots

Date and hours of allowed voting identical

This eliminates all arguments, all claims of cheating, all claimed descrepencies, and best of all, all lawsuits from whiners who hate to lose.

Previously I mentioned Mail-In Voting as the focal point of such a fix. What makes this easy is we already have proven methods used by certain states for each of the above. One is Arizona.

Arizona has had mail-in voting since the 1990’s. On average, approx. 80–85% of ALL VOTES are cast by mail in Arizona. Until this year’s shenanigans by the Republican Right-wing Nutz, there has never been a claim of impropriety with Arizona’s system. It’s a time proven system that works and has worked for 3 decades. It could easily be rolled out and replicated on a nationwide basis.

Now What?

Let’s face it. This is all, when broken down, about common sense. Currently, voting is politicized in many states, with attempts to keep certain groups by race and economic means from voting. This was very evident throughout southern states, such as in Texas and Florida.

Hell, we have a President calling Governors and State representatives demanding they nullify votes in their states. This is proof enough that all federal elections should now be federally regulated. Elections can not and should not be politicized or democracy is over… done.

If and when these changes are ever brought about, this would also prove to be the perfect timing for an end to reapportionment and other election issues that exist for one purpose, to manipulate votes by income and race.

In the end, the bottom line is this… the creation of a national voting process, separate from state and local elections, entirely regulated by the federal govt. and federal law would solve and eliminate the current circus promoted by this country's most well-known nuts cases.

Say good-bye Rudy G. and that astounding legal team.

Good-bye meatheads in yellow kilts.

Good-bye Grifter-in-Chief.