Love Your Neighbor

I want to be perfectly clear from the outset.

I am not picking a fight.

I want to talk about the subject matter of this post.

Before we permanently made the peninsula our legal residence The Missus had a long and storied career as a poll worker.  She eventually rose to the position of Precinct Captain and was the boss of all of the poll workers who diligently served to conduct free and fair elections at a local precinct level in Wauwatosa.  Don't take my word for it - ask my pal, Six-Deuce, who faithfully appeared there on the occasion of every election to exercise his franchise.

Anyway, I think the last election Jill worked back in The Naked City was 2016.  Even then she began to become jaded about rumors, rhetoric and whispers about how insidious forces were at work.  That the citizen neighbors who conducted and supervised local elections conspired to steal votes and overturn election results.

In 2020 it grew in scale and ferocity.  

While Jill was no longer a poll worker there was no escaping the reality that there was indeed a small group of individuals in our small community that were convinced that our Dominion Voting Machines (used to tabulate paper ballots) were somehow connected to the Italian military or were created in Venezuela at the direction of long-dead Hugo Chavez to manipulate the vote count in such a fashion that the election was stolen by means of an algorithm that switched votes or that the ubiquitous paper ballots were manufactured from bamboo in China. 

I've known our Town Clerk on a personal basis since 1994 and at the time she shared with me that while the accusatory swarm of public records requests were perfectly legal, and answered in their entirety, she had never witnessed anything like it in 42 years of public service. 

It sucks when dedicated and honest neighbors who perform democracy's work to conduct a free and fair election are hounded by furtive glances.  Whispered accusations. Rumor, innuendo and unfounded allegations.  By their own neighbors.

Good people can become discouraged.  This can make recruitment difficult in the face of baseless accusations.  And it can become easier to unvolunteer.

The dedicated neighbors doing the right thing were not Feeling The Love.

I think I know right from wrong.  And this sort of treatment is wrong.

Nevertheless, nobody has quit.  And knowing Jill's background she's been recruited by our honest neighbors to join with other honest people in the community to continue advancing the noble work of honest elections.  Honesty counts for a lot among honest neighbors.

Good people, performing the work of a democratic republic are unintimidated by unfounded lies.  They are patriots armed with only their integrity, character and the ballot box.

Sure, there's election fraud out there, I've blogged about it on any number of occasions.  Don't take my word for it.  Click on the subject:  Fraud to the left of this post and you'll find examples such as this or this and many more on the subject.  All of that aside, the level of fraud is not on the scale to overturn an entire election.

Don't take my word for it - ask the former guy's Attorney General and countless courts that threw-out baseless allegations in the dust bin of legal history.  I hate to repeat myself but as Bill Barr eloquently put it:  It's Bull Shit. 

In closing, I would ask this.  If you have incontrovertible evidence that my lovely wife is a member of a wicked cabal committed to stealing your vote you should tell it to her face.  Then call the County Sheriff and file charges.

Put-up or shut-up.

In the upcoming November elections I shall not cast a ballot for any candidate who persists in spreading The Big Lie that our elections are rigged.

For those of you who have not embraced the Big Lie please vote your conscience whatever direction honesty and character point you. 

Doing the right thing prevails in the end.

And Love Your Neighbor.....