SamSaid!

VOTING

     Election day approaches and while I look forward to casting my vote, I despair over two aspects of our electoral process. Now we hear the drumbeats of “get out the vote” and see new measures to make it easier to vote. A few years back it was the “motor/voter” bill. Now it is a move to allow voter registration on election day  –  right up to the time a vote is cast  –  right at the polling place. Registration at the polls is a proposition on the 2002 California ballot.

     I wonder what ever became of the informed electorate. Presumably, marching the uninformed and indifferent to the polling place is a wonderful aspect of democracy. Not by my standards.I hate to think of my vote being cancelled by a warm body who doesn't know the difference between his fanny and first base. Not only that, it is my observation that as efforts like this continue, the growth of voter fraud does too. I am not so naive to believe that there hasn't been voter fraud in machine politics over the years (Chicago, New York, Jersey City, Miami, etc) but now we are making it easier to play fun and games with voting all over the country. How is it that our do-gooders look  upon mass registration as OK but are indifferent to increasing voter fraud (only in Florida).

     This year,  the outcome of a few races will make a huge differencs in our country. Should they be decided by fraud or by capturing many whose normal priorites do not include voting?. I have always thought that people should WANT to vote and would be self-motivated rather than herded to the polling places by their political wranglers. Maybe it is signs of the times that voting fraud is just accepted as part of the deal. Sad commentary.

    As a case in point, just take a look at the California ballot with its many choices of Candidates, Measures and Propositions. It is a farce. No one  –  repeat  –  no one can possibly understand all of the issues on that ballot. Yet people who haven't even seen the ballot will get the OK to fill in the blanks. So why should I bother to read and discuss the ballot and its complications? Will it make a difference?? 

     I've never missed voting in an election in my life. So, I'll just vote and hope. Maybe an illegal alien will cancel someone else's vote.