This just in: We have a winner from Tombstone, Arizona.
Voting tabulation has been completed and we can declare that Wyatt Earp has won the race for city marshal. In 1880. It’s not clear if Clanton family survivors will find this validation helpful considering their O.K. Corral results.
Survivors of the original Arizona election officials (all now dead) pushed back on critics, saying they had been severely undermanned and if you want quicker results – say in the same century or two — increase the manpower counting ballots.
There was no way to confirm allegations that some Democratic election officials from that Earp count somehow voted in 2022 mid-terms.
Is this Earp story absurd? Not really.
We’re nearly a week past election day – itself an outdated concept due to pre- and post-election voting that now is perfectly acceptable — and we still don’t know which party controls the U.S. House of Representatives for the next term.
Whether you be Republican or Democrat, you should be demanding action on cleaning up the electoral process, unless you like clouds of uncertainty. Remember, the shoe could be on the other foot in some future election and I’m not sure the peaceful leftists who control the Democratic party would be so accepting should late decision after late decision go against them.
This election already smells. We had the ballot printing problem in Republican strongholds in Phoenix on election day. We had the mysterious camera outage in Nevada in the post-election counting process.
Mostly, we’ve had Democrats winning an unlikely high percentage of the holdout races, making Republican House control an iffy proposition at the moment.
No less an august source than leftist CNN, in a story posted on realclearpolitics.com, is giving the Republicans the theoretical nod.
To quote that story: “It’s still most likely that Republicans will control the House with a narrow majority. Democrats need an improbably near-perfect run through remaining seats to stay in power.”
Take this from a guy who has done his share of gambling, I wouldn’t bet on a Republican House triumph with your money.
When you speak of the statistically improbable, recall the 2020 presidential election, which was improbable squared as Clueless Joe Biden magically got the right number of voters in late, late counts, wherever he needed them to carry swing states.
Once again, we are to believe that Biden defied electoral history. First, this candidate with all the charisma of a cabbage garnered the most votes in U.S. history – and needed almost all of them to prevail in 2020.
Now, with his approval rating severely negative, no matter the polling source, he again defies historical precedent by apparently gaining Senate seats in a 2022 mid-term election (the typical incumbent party loss in these things is 4 or more seats) and keeping a typical House loss of 20-40 seats to a deficit of a few seats– maybe even a few gains as those late election results trickle in from California et al.
Only in Florida, with strict election integrity controls and prompt tabulation, did the much-predicted Republican red wave materialize.
I’m thinking this is no mere coincidence.
In a story from The Epoch Times, posted on zerohedge.com, Pa. State representative Frank Ryan, a former Marine who ran election security for Iraq’s 2005 election, recalled that foreign election.
Please note, those results were available election night. Also note, despite our whining here about the need for hordes of people to vote through the mail, nearly 75 percent of the Iraqis showed up to vote in-person. There was NO mail-in voting due to concerns about electoral fraud.
Repeat: Mail-in voting raises concerns of electoral fraud. This is the case today in such enlightened countries as France, where there are paper ballots, voted only in-person, and no electronic voting machines to further increase the chances to cheat on the count.
The Iraqi turnout was achieved despite death threats to voters, both before and after. Remember, Iraqis had to dip their fingers in purple ink as they voted to prevent repeat voting. This also marked these citizens as voters for days afterward, which is significant considering death threats on voters from terrorists.
To recap, Iraqi voters were willing and able to vote on election day despite concerns that dwarf those of our pampered citizenry, their votes were counted by bi-partisan tabulators and the results was known on election night.
But we need to wait a week or more for results in the United States because one party has found it convenient to bastardize the whole voting process.
Until that is changed, until we don’t let mail-in votes from undocumented voters rain in early and late, until the voting rolls are purged of the dead and ineligible, until we have an election in which there are not mysterious surveillance camera outages, ballot problems, or stunning results that defy exit polling, be prepared for more elections that come with the stench of doubt attached.
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