Wait a minute. I’ve been very, very busy lately. But during my busy-ness, the president demanded every state submit to him our voter rolls. And the great state of Texas was more than happy to summarily oblige. No questions asked.
Am I the only one who’s suspicious about this request? Why would Donald J. Trump, a convicted felon, need all the nation’s voter rolls? What information is he hoping to find? Besides my name, signature, address, perhaps Social Security number, precinct, and oh yes, my party affiliation when I vote in the primaries?
I knew it! There is nothing more important than for our newly installed banana republic to know every detail about its citizens. A lot can be learned from an American once you know her party affiliation. When it comes to prospective friendships, it is often a deal breaker—come on now, whether republican or democrat.
I grew up during the Watergate era, and the one thing I got out of that national political scandal was: Republicans will do ANYTHING to win elections including felony crimes and cheating. And the flip side, republicans think democrats are screwing them over, too. And American history does reveal some cheating here and there in communities and major cities through the centuries. But the aftermath of Watergate was new laws to stop tinkering with ballot boxes and voter rolls and the National Democratic Party headquarters.
For one thing, employees of every state’s Department of State pop in on vote day to silently observe and monitor randomly chosen polling sites. Then after voting ends around 7 p.m., both political party chairs in every single community across the vast U.S. stand in the county clerk’s office every election day and for every type of election—right there where the locked ballot boxes from community polls are turned in and then processed through machines and/or hand counted if sometimes necessary. The media is in the room, too—something most Americans don’t know including the president.
Yes, election night at the county clerk’s office is a fun time of pizza and barbecue, sodas and snacks and hour by hour posted results. This American fun can go on into the wee hours of the morning, but modern machines have reduced the time quite a bit. The point is: COUNTING VOTES IS IN PUBLIC AND NOT IN THE DARK BASEMENT OFFICE OF THE “X FILES.”
So why does Trump need our voter rolls?
The word is to stop rampant voter fraud.
Brah hah hah hah hah tee hee hee!
Republicans are so obsessed with alleged widespread voter fraud (they do this every election whether they win or lose) that they think dead people vote as well as people who are not U.S. citizens.
And sure enough, they find like one or two or a few people who voted when legally they shouldn’t have—and when the smoke clears, more often than not, it’s an honest mistake by the voter more than a highly organized plot to overthrow the government (which is by now already overthrown).
So voter fraud is not the real reason Trump wants to check over every single voter roll in the USA. That’s a lotta rolls with tiny-printed info. In reality, the president doesn’t have what it takes to read through tens of thousands of voter rolls. A lotta people on the voter rolls didn’t even vote. They don’t have to.
But it smells. The very idea a U.S. president wants to hand-check voter rolls, gladly offered him by Red states like his biggest buddy Texas, poses a conflict, to say the least. At the county level, voter registration cards are issued but not before verification of the applicant. You cannot vote in an election if you are not a bona fide U.S. citizen. And immigrants, by the way, who become U.S. citizens can join the voting process. As for dead people voting, well, that’s the stuff of science fiction. It has never been proven that dead people vote. I’m sure they have better things to do in the hereafter than to cast ballots for or against Trump.
The current president is hip to manipulating emotions. Not unlike Fox News and other entertainment-more-than-legitimate-news sources. The internet is a good 90-95 percent fake news than real. Doesn’t everyone the world over know this by now? It’s proven to stir humanity into a tizzy—and keep us that a-way.
Well, there’s nothing I can do about the president checking over my voter information. Yes, I’m a U.S. citizen. Yes, I’m an active voter. No, I’m not dead. Yes, my county knows my address and every year sends me an updated voter card sometimes with new precinct numbers so I can check my community’s representatives.
But in the silence between elections, I wonder what kind of people feel the need to thoroughly check out every single American citizen when it comes to their political affiliation—the way they vote. I find it … silly … unnecessary … and purposefully intimidating. Just waiting for the other shoe to drop …