Saturday, November 17, 2018

Reverse the erosion of election policy that stood the country in good stead until the last couple of decades

You're as sick of the messy, ugly, dragged-out non-decisions in several races for various offices that should and could have been nice, clean numbers one way or the other certainly not later than midday November 7 as LITD is. You found Stacey Abram's (she of the beaming smile in the photo op with Linda Sarsour) non-concession speech as insufferable, Brenda Snipes as smelly, and the nail-biters, some of which are still touch and go, as nerve-wracking.

How to avoid this in the future?

Michael Walsh at PJ Media has the precise remedy:

no:
  • early voting
  • provisional voting
  • motor-voter registration
  • mail-in ballots
  • phone-in or faxed-in votes
  • absentee ballots except for on-duty military stationed overseas (civilian living out of the country? Tough, your choice)
  • all results to be reported within twelve hours of poll closings and certified within 24
Problem solved.
I have never voted in any manner other than showing up at a polling place on Election Day in all the decades I've been voting.

I've just figured that the law means what it says:

Since 1845, the law has been clear: national elections (which set the standard for all others) are to be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. 
But just as with their judicial activism and constant expansion of the regulatory apparatus, Democrats don't ever like things to be nice and clean and agreed upon in the election process. They rely on moving goalposts because raw power for them, not the preservation of individual freedom, is the objective.

In their view, there is no end to the tools at their disposal. Like all totalitarian parties, they'll play as fast and loose as they have to to impose their grim vision on us.

The way we thwart them is to thoroughly understand what the rules were before they started messing with them and insist that those rules be followed. That's what you do regarding election law, regarding the Constitution, and regarding the Bible.

Insist that words mean things.



5 comments:

  1. You wanna know why you don't know who is ahead in the early voting the day before the election? There is enlightenment in the answer. Contemplate.

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  2. When I was a kid I could never quite understand the barriers to simply having everybody vote. Why are Republicans so uncomfortable with that?

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  3. You conveniently ignore the voting practices of this country during the half century before 1845.

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  4. Which led to some of the messiest and most rancorous elections in our history.

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