Now that I\u2019ve almost entirely recovered from the fatigue, fascination and horror of Election Day I\u2019ve had a chance to reflect a little on what I saw and learned.<\/p>\n
First off, it really was a fascinating experience.\u00a0 Coming into direct contact with four or five thousand people, even if only briefly is stimulating and highly interesting.\u00a0 Even if you\u2019re for the most part only asking and answering questions you get a flavor for each soul you collide with.<\/p>\n
And I would say the negative contacts were only in the range of a tenth of a percent.\u00a0 I could count them all on the fingers of one hand.\u00a0 And that\u2019s a remarkably low percentage.\u00a0 Possibly the majority of the participants were enjoying the experience.\u00a0 Or maybe they picked up on my energy.\u00a0 Because despite how exhausted I was by the fifteenth hour of my shift I was still energized by the whole thing.\u00a0 My feet weren\u2019t energized but my mind was.\u00a0 It was fun.<\/p>\n
However, that all ended when the doors were closed and the tabulation began.\u00a0 Everything about the process of counting the votes is painful, annoying and subject to the vicissitudes of badly designed and easily malfunctioning equipment.\u00a0 But at least in the case of the election team I worked with everyone went way above and beyond the call of duty to get the numbers accurately and expeditiously relayed to the Secretary of State\u2019s office.\u00a0 So, kudos to us.<\/p>\n
Now I\u2019ll apply what I learned on Tuesday to what is going on across the country now several days after the election in places like Arizona and Nevada.\u00a0 The delays they are experiencing are on account of the mail in ballots.\u00a0 Either they are waiting for a certain number of days for ballots mailed in on Tuesday to reach them (which seems idiotic) or they only started processing them after they finished the count of the normal ballots.<\/p>\n
In either case this is either rank stupidity or an excuse to fabricate ballots to offset shortfalls by the candidate that\u2019s supposed to win.\u00a0 If it weren\u2019t then there would be a requirement that all mail in ballots be mailed in a month before the election.\u00a0 That way all of them would be received and processed before the election.\u00a0 The fact that these states are allowing their elections to be dragged out for a week or more is malfeasance that necessarily robs the process of legitimacy in the minds of the voters.\u00a0 By my way of looking at things this is hastening the break down of national cohesion.\u00a0 This year, more than half of Americans already believed that the 2020 elections were illegally tampered with.\u00a0 2022 won\u2019t improve on things.<\/p>\n
So, I\u2019m struck by the paradox.\u00a0 Here we have a population of people who expend time and emotional energy to vote in the hope that it influences how their government works.\u00a0 And yet more than half of those people think that to some extent the selection of federal representatives is rigged.\u00a0 How can that be reconciled?<\/p>\n
Maybe it can\u2019t be reconciled.\u00a0 And maybe in the not-too-distant future something is going to change.\u00a0 What\u2019s the old saying?\u00a0 The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome.\u00a0 Maybe we\u2019re getting tired of acting crazy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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