The election of 2020 has shown the importance of transparency and neutrality in the election process, as in no other election throughout American History. The 2020 election has also supplied the perfect backdrop to understanding the roles of elected officials in elections. The current holder of an elected office oversees and is responsible for ensuring that their last official act is the election that will replace them in office.
President Trump has done an admiral job as an elected official in avoiding identity politics, attempting to improve the election process, and honoring the “Rule of Law” in America. Yet, despite all the President’s efforts, the 2020 Election to either rehire him, or replace him, has been fraught with fraud, technological cheating, and deception. All because each level of elected officials, Federal, State, County, City, failed in their most important duty, protecting election integrity.
Most American Citizens would agree that integrity is all about being honest and having strong moral principles. Yet, some American Citizens might have difficulty with the other implications’ integrity brings to the issue of elections. Namely, “integrity declaring, a state of being whole and undivided; internal consistency; lacking corruption in electronic data; the condition of being unified, unimpaired, or sound in construction” (Websters Dictionary, 2020).
Unfortunately, or fortunately, even those committing the fraud and deception are failing the integrity test; because integrity requires at its most fundamental base, trust and truth between parties. The elected officials do not trust the people and do not want to give up power ill-gottenly gained to America’s citizens. Those paying for the fraud and deception all have different personal agendas and only came together on one item, theft of the election process for personal gain. Thus, the entire force is built on possible common interest sand, instead of building upon the bedrock of truth and trust.
The elected officials are derelict in their most important duty, and this dereliction was intentional. How does a citizen know the elected officials’ actions were deliberate; none of the voting irregularities discovered in the primaries was investigated and corrected. By carefully reviewing the primaries’ data, the same patterns are found during the November election are revealed. The media called the irregularities in the primaries mistakes. They scoffed, but the same behavior found in the primaries of the 2020 Elections is glaringly apparent in the November 2020 elections, and every candidate and issue is tainted by the fraud found and substantiated. Even a single dead person voting is fraud and requires investigation before the results are certified.
Consider for a moment your job, your profession; if you failed in your most critical role, would you expect to have a job for very long? Consider a car mechanic who fails to repair a car; that mechanic will not be a mechanic for long. A nurse who routinely gives out incorrect medication dosages or gives medication to the wrong patients will not be a nurse for long. What about a contractor who builds buildings without proper foundations or the police officer who bullies and betrays their badge. Yet, the elected officials who conducted the farce called the 2020 Elections are not being fired for dereliction of duty. The elected officials will not be held accountable for the taxpayer monies wasted, the candidate’s time and money wasted, nor will they be removed from office. Yet they deserve all these consequences and more.
One of President Trump’s first actions in office was to call for a cleaning of the voter rolls and cull the fraud found in the 2016 Elections. Yet, his call went unanswered by many counties, fighting broke out in other counties, and the media harassed and denigrated anyone hoping to contribute until nothing could be accomplished. Thus, the same problems from earlier elections were used and new and more insidious methods to steal the 2020 Elections.
The people responsible for the fraud in the elections in American History are your neighbors. The county governments across America are generally accountable for holding fair and transparent elections and sending the election results to the government to declare the winners and losers in elections. However, these same elected and unelected people overseeing elections at the county and city level have decided that they are the Praetorian Guard of America and deserve to choose who belongs in office and who does not, to the detriment of the citizens casting their votes.
How have they usurped this power and keep this power; by refusing common-sense voter ID laws and flooding the ballots with mail-in ballots and technological solutions that cannot be traced to a single voter. Common sense voter ID laws include showing a government-issued picture ID before being handed a ballot to vote. Consider the following, to enter a government building; you need both a picture ID and a purpose for being there. To board an airplane, you need a government picture ID. To legally buy alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana, you need a government-issued picture ID. In fact, in many states, driving without a license on your person is a quick trip to jail and is a multiplier of charges when caught. Yet, showing an ID or printing the tracking number/serial number of the ID on a ballot is considered too demanding and has been fought viciously to perpetuate voting inconsistencies and allow fraud in elections.
In multiple countries worldwide, it is considered a regular election practice to tie a ballot to a person with a fingerprint, a signature, and a government-issued ID. Yet, in the United States of America, a free Republic (if we can keep it), showing ID continues to be claimed too difficult and denies the poor their ability to vote. Yet how many of those “poor people” can produce an ID for everything they want to buy or enter a government building or board a plane. The politicians of America are derelict in their duties where the most basic office roles are concerned, and guaranteeing integral and transparent elections, is the issue that politicians need to be held accountable to perform.
To the citizens of America, regardless of political stripe, seize the power of the elections by holding your neighbors paid by your taxes accountable for dereliction of duty. These neighbors are wasting your money for their benefit, and this practice must cease. Not with more government intrusion, but with citizens demanding, insisting, and declaring these practices must stop forthwith. Demand less technology in the voting process! Demand an end to mail-in balloting! Demand common-sense voter ID laws that protect the integrity of the electoral process! Insist that the voter rolls be scoured annually, and a report provided by these county officials showing the voter roll integrity standard has been reached. Failure to provide the report, or to properly clean the voter rolls, should have sharp consequences. Error rates for an election should be exceptionally low when these actions are properly taken.
America will not long survive as the “Shining city upon a hill” if the problems with election laws, the lack of common-sense voter ID laws, and the dead continue to vote in America’s election processes! We, the citizens of America, must act! Not the Supreme Court Justices or any other judge, not legislators, and indeed not the winners of the 2020 Elections. “We The People” are responsible and need to step up to retrieve the power stolen by our neighbors.
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