Putting Election Judges on Notice
Sparxafire!
I don’t know whether this is good or bad for my mental health… but I like to look down the road and scan for things that are going to upset me in the future. My hope is that by predicting a bad thing will happen in advance will take some of the sting out when it does happen.
In this case, I’m talking about the mechanics of voting, November 2008, AND the silly role of the Electoral College.
IF we can’t seem to figure out how to count the votes in 2008, I will be positively outraged. There was NO excuse for voting anomilies in 2004, and less for the upcoming election. I shall be throwing a bedroom slipper at the screen if my television shows me footage of poll workers squinting at hanging chads… or malfunctioning voting machinery of any kind. I mean it!
Furthermore, if by some vagary, the election is close and not the Democratic landslide we expect, there better be no guff from the Electoral College. The EC is insignificant, benign and meaningless as long as it confirms the popular vote. But when its screwy machinations defy the popular vote, then, it’s allllll over. Why on earth this thing does not get dissolved, de-fanged or whatever is beyond me. It is an antiquated agrarian relic left over to protect us from threats that no longer exist. All right already.
We are still more than a year away from the election. I’m picking up little rumblings here and there that some jurisdictions still don’t have a foolproof voting system in place. I’m here to tell you right now, we can’t go through another horse hockey game like we suffered in 2004. It’s more than just a disgrace, it’s a big, fat, public display of stupidity and incompetence. If you can’t get it done, I swear, we’ll turn it over Mrs. Connelly’s fifth grade civics class. Just give them two-weeks notice. Again. I mean business, here!
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