Friday, October 30, 2020

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 I am releasing, in quick succession, three (at least!) posts I've written about election and vote counting and when and how and in what form, and all the myriad concerns we've all had or that have been generated regarding the election ending on November 3rd.  I really think the most laudable part of this (so far) is the voters taking the process back from the politicians and the pundits and the pooh-bahs who think they own it and that elections only happen on one day in November quadrenially, and all other voting activities, especially quadrennial early voting, is so cute and charming and matters not a bean because the TeeVee can't gather people and sets and graphics and holograms (I'm not letting CNN forget that) and broadcast for 8+ hours how many predictions they are making (did they learn NOTHING in 2000?).

November 3 is going to be interesting, because exit polls won't mean shit and Texas is leading (still) in early vote turnout but we don't register by party in Texas so who knows what the turnout means until the ballots are counted and even AP can't do that (not yet, anyway).  I'm seeing this, but I don't know what it's based on or what it means, since we don't elect President's by a national popular vote count (more's the pity).

Anyway, the early voting turnout has finally stoppered the pundits who think they can predict the future and returned control of the nation to We, the People.  Whether we're smart enough to cut that cord or release it and find it reeling back to them like an automatic winder, is also yet to be determined.  No one knows what the future is, which is how it should be.  That's how we get in this mess in the first place:  confident our future couldn't include Donald Trump as POTUS, too many of us lapsed into complacency.  Four years later, we're acting to correct that mistake.  Will we lapse into complacency again?  Probably, but hopefully not any time soon.

The posts below this one are all on pretty much the same topic, and all probably pretty much say the same thing.  Not quite a theme and variations (I'm not that clever), but I had to toss them out of the nest.  Whether they fly or plummet to the ground is no longer my concern.

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