Been quite a week. No question about that. Now, if the various States can just finish counting all the mailed in absentee and provisional ballots so we know, finally, just who got elected and who didn't.
Brad Blog is having quite a time keeping up on those matters. Had San Diego's Bilbray/Busby mess last time I looked...and since I'm a voter in the 50th District, I can tell you I am one unhappy camper. Registrar's site has Bilbray the winner with 100% of the vote counted. Just a flat out lie. There are thousands of votes yet to be tallied.
Have a friend, a former auditor who dealt with the military both here and overseas. She's a real hardnose about doing things right. Last Tuesday she worked at a polling place. Asked her how it went for her. "GAWDAWFUL", she said. That alone told me we were in deep yogurt and sure enough.
Don't understand the people in the 50th. Our area is a recent addition due to redistricting. Not enough of us to override the voters who put in and kept in Cunningham...now biding his time in prison. So here is Bilbray to take his place. Lovely. The guy originally was elected down in Chula Vista, way south of here. Eventually lost his seat in the House to a Dem. Became a lobbyist. Pays a chunk of money for his child's school in DC...where he owns a home and is registered to vote. So also was registered as living in Chula Vista. Said he was living at his Mother's in Carlsbad and registered there...which made him eligible to run for office in the 50th. Gimme a break. In any case, the 50th - North County location - votes him in. Or at least seems to have since the votes are still being counted. I guess for those people it's a Republican or nothing. Amazing.
Causes me to think of the small Tennessee town who unknowingly elected a guy who was on the wanted list of the Sheriff in another town not far away. Now there's a situation.
Or the tiny town with a population of 80: Two guys running for Mayor. A third guy decides he'll run too, even though he figures he doesn't have a prayer of winning. Told his wife he'd vote for himself and did. Couple of his friends said they'd vote for him too...maybe 8 or 9 of them. Comes the vote tally and the two guys split the vote 50-50. The third guy, even though he'd voted for himself as did his friends, got ZERO votes. Gonna be a hot time in that little town.
And so it went. I think it's time all voting machines are trashed and the nation returned to keeping voting KISS. Keep It Simple Stupid. A pen and a paper ballot and a count by hand. No machines involved.
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