We need to Federalize the election process ...

If the last election proved nothing else, it demonstrated again the need for us to Federalize elections once and for all. 

Enough with this nonsense of allowing state and local bureaucrats to set their own rules on who can vote, when they can vote, and what constitutes a “legal” vote. It’s also time to finally enact a national ID for citizens to stop voter fraud once and for all.

I say that as someone in the great state of Florida, where Mickey Mouse is not just a Disney creation but an apt description of how elections are conducted here, at least in Broward and Palm Beach counties.  When you have politicians here – and also in neighboring Georgia as Stacey Abrams did – openly encouraging non-citizens to vote, it’s a clarion call to clamp down. 

When you have a flood of absentee ballots sent in with return addresses, signatures, birth dates and Social Security numbers that don’t match registration records and lawyers go to court to get these counted anyway, it’s a disgrace.  Worse yet, some nitwit judges actually allow mail-in ballots received well after official cut-off deadlines be counted in a clear violation of state laws.   

And when thousands of “lost” ballots suddenly materialize in Democrat-heavy counties, and when a rental car left at the Tampa airport was found to have boxes of blank ballots in the trunk, is it any wonder citizens think there’s voter fraud? 

Well of course there’s voter fraud. Critics on the left say it can’t be proved.  That’s because the state and local bureaucrats routinely engaged in voter fraud say it never happens.  Apparently that’s good enough for the media and politicians on the left. Nothing to see here, right? 

Do we really trust the media and politicians to tell us the truth?  More importantly, do we really trust state and local bureaucrats to fess up that they have no idea who is voting? The truth is, most don’t know but don’t want to admit it. 

Every time someone gets the bright – and right – idea to clean voter rolls to remove duplicates, the dead, vacant lots, and even registered voters who would be over 125 years old according to Social Security records, Democrats and the left go crazy. It makes no difference how the cleaning is designed, including sending letters to addresses on file that bounce back undeliverable three or more times, Democrats and the left scream bloody murder. 

It’s always a plot to disenfranchise minority voters, according to them. So is any attempt to require people to prove who they are – or even that they are alive – to vote.    

Think about why the left and Democrats are so opposed to voter ID.  Why they are so opposed to verifying addresses and signatures of voters.  Why they fight every attempt to ensure that only citizens are voting in our elections.

There’s only one conclusion: Democrats and the left are stuffing the ballot boxes. 

Didn’t you ever wonder why when blue district bureaucrats “find” additional ballots those ballots are almost always overwhelmingly for Democrats?  Or that some heavily Democrat places have more people voting than the number registered to vote? Or that “provisional” ballots almost always favor Democrats over Republicans? 

Are those just coincidences?  Really? 

The media like to say that we are an almost evenly divided nation, politically.

I honestly don’t believe that. I think widespread voter fraud only makes it look like that.

So here’s what I think needs to be done to “true” our elections. 

We need a national ID. Every citizen 18 and over needs to have a unique citizen number and photo ID, on a card chipped with their encoded date of birth, Social Security number, and thumbprint.  A driver’s license or student ID doesn’t cut it. Getting the card would be free and the process would be managed and executed by the Department of Homeland Security. Obtaining one of these fraudulently would be a serious Federal felony.

I don’t want to hear any of the BS about the burden this would place on the old, the disabled, or minorities. If need be, we could send out DHS-staffed mobile units to minority neighborhoods, nursing homes or wherever needed to document everyone.  Whatever it costs would be worth it. 

During the process, cross-check these against existing Social Security records. No valid Social Security number, no ID, period.   

All the data would be entered into a Federal database.  To vote in person anywhere in the U.S. you would need to show that ID and have the chip read.  To vote by absentee ballot that ballot would have to include that citizen number, which could then be cross-checked against the database to insure the filer only votes once, rather than once where they live and another where they might maintain another residence, as I suspect some seasonal residents and college students might be doing. 

Anyone possessing one of these valid chipped IDs would automatically be registered to vote in any and all of their state’s elections, and all Federal elections. The burden of maintaining and validating voter rolls would be taken out of the hands of the states.   

Finally, once someone has been cleared to vote in person, use only paper ballots of a consistent design set by the Federal Election Commission, which should also set uniform early voting times and rules, deadlines for submitting absentee ballots, and deadlines for submitting results, across the entire country.  In short, cut out the state and local bureaucrats entirely. 

Then let’s see if we are really so evenly divided.  I suspect we’re not.

All this would take a act of Congress. I fully expect a wide range of legal challenges, mainly from Democrats and the left, less so from Republicans and the right. 

Big city politicians will scream that the same data could be used to hunt down illegals and deny them Federal benefits. And they would be right about that.

I consider that a bonus.   

Too stupid to vote ...

Once again, Florida is the epicenter of controversy over counting votes. 

And once again, Broward and Palm Beach counties are demonstrating how stupid they are.  How incompetent the hacks supervising the elections there are.  Plus, how stupid the voters in those counties apparently still are. 

It was bad enough when Bush/Gore proved voters there couldn’t understand the concept of a punch card to vote. The instructions then were crystal clear – you must punch out the hole next to the candidate you’re voting for, and only one for each office. 

But did those voters get it? Of course not.  They’re morons.  They’re also overwhelmingly Democrats. That’s not to say all Democrats are morons, but I see a correlation there, at least here in the Sunshine State.    

Then Democrats flew in a horde of lawyers to argue what constituted a punched-out hole.  Was a dimpled mark good enough to indicate what the voter wanted? A hanging chad? What about voters who tentatively punched one hole and then punched another too?

To avoid this nonsense again the state decided to only use paper ballots going forward. Again the instructions – which down here have to be in multiple languages – were crystal clear:  You needed to fill in the circle next to your choice of candidate. And only one per candidate.  That’s it.

Of course that’s too complicated, apparently, for the morons in Broward and Palm Beach counties. Instead of doing what everyone has done on multiple-choice exams and forms for decades, some voters there drew arrows, drew an X, crossed out their first choice, etc.  All of which stymied the machines designed to read the paper ballots electronically. 

About 3.7 percent more voters in Broward voted for governor than for anyone in the U.S. Senate race on the same ballot.  That’s a pretty dramatic undervote, well outside the norm, which also is suspicious. Now some on the left are blaming the design of the ballot itself for that. Guess who designed the ballot? Bingo, the same Democrat hacks running elections there.     

When it came to absentee ballots – always an area ripe for fraud – a lot of voters in those counties couldn’t follow instructions on those, either. Even though those were in multiple languages. According to the hacks running elections there, some “forgot” to sign their ballots or their signatures didn’t remotely match what was on file. Some put a different return address on their ballot than the one they used to register to vote.  Some entered the date they completed the ballot where they were supposed to put their birthdate.  A lot seemed to have ignored that their ballot had to be postmarked by a certain date to be accepted and counted. 

These people are clearly too stupid to vote.  Or perhaps those stuffing the ballot box are. 

I believe every legal vote should be counted.  I also believe no vote cast improperly or by non-citizens should be counted. That includes mail-in ballots postmarked long after the deadlines for sending them in.  And if the address you use, or your signature doesn’t match what’s on file, those votes shouldn’t be counted at worst and investigated for identity theft and fraud at best.    

The bozos running elections in those two counties know the rules. They should, since they’ve been chastised by the courts many times in the past for election shenanigans. 

Yet even now they are defying recent court orders to at least disclose how many people voted in their counties.  Today is November 12th; by Florida law they were required to give a total count 30 minutes after polls closed on November 6th.  And here we are. They still refuse to tell us.  Over 70,000 “new” votes have mysteriously appeared in Broward County since the polls closed.  Thousands more have suddenly appeared in Palm Beach County since then, too.

Huh? 

Now, if you’re not all that familiar with Florida, you might think maybe the irregularities and problems in Broward and Palm Beach counties are because these are poor, backwards places.  They’re not.  They are two of the most affluent and well-educated counties in the state.  Broward has the second largest population of any county in the state. There’s no excuse for this.

But they are overwhelmingly Democrat.  And like too many Democrats everywhere, they feel they shouldn’t be held to the same rules as everyone else. Laws, what laws? Rules, what rules?  In fact they are suing to count all the mail-in ballots postmarked and received after the official deadlines.  They also want to count mail-in ballots that somehow got “damaged” and local polling staff – also Democrats – thoughtfully just filled in new ballots as replacements. Plus they want to count the ballots “interpreted” by local polling staff to decide a voter’s intention. 

I’m not making this up. That’s how bad it is.

For the life of me I can’t decide who is more stupid – the voters there, the hacks in charge in Broward and Palm Beach counties, or state officials who seem powerless to stop this craziness.  

Right now we're going through mandatory recounts for the Senate seat, the race for governor, and the race for the State Agriculture Commissioner.    

I suspect at some point Federal courts will intervene, perhaps even the SCOTUS. Then Democrats will whine and complain that the SCOTUS “stole” the election.   

It’s just par for the course in the two most heavily Democrat counties in the state.