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Re-re-recount (and counting)

By Bobbie Kirkhart

As the world knows, Don­ald Trump’s 2016 elec­tion to the pres­i­den­cy had healthy assis­tance from Russ­ian bots that, in spite of their non-human cir­cum­stance, knew a great deal about unver­i­fied cor­rup­tion of Hillary Clin­ton and were gen­er­ous­ly eager to share that infor­ma­tion with cer­tain recep­tive seg­ments of the Amer­i­can pub­lic. Dur­ing that time, there were ver­i­fied attempts to hack into 21 states, but we nev­er found out if they were suc­cess­ful as the Trump admin­is­tra­tion declared the bud­get wouldn’t allow for an inves­ti­ga­tion. Some high­ly sus­pi­cious Amer­i­cans (we call them Democ­rats) wor­ried aloud that the 2020 elec­tion might also be rigged. For­tu­nate­ly, Trump knew how to tell. Dur­ing the cam­paign, when Joe Biden was lead­ing in the polls, he stat­ed that if Biden were announced the win­ner, we would know the elec­tion was rigged. Well, Biden was announced the win­ner, so there you have it, clear proof of fraud.

Pho­to cred­it: “super green nin­ja ‘with lasers’” by TheAlieness Gise­la­Gia­rdi­no²³ is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

And if you’re won­der­ing what this image has to do with the elec­tion recounts, then…

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We Were Trumped!

By Bobbie Kirkhart

Amer­i­cans do not vote direct­ly for their pres­i­dents. We vote for the peo­ple who will vote for our pres­i­dents. Each state is assigned elec­tors, based part­ly on pop­u­la­tion, but each state is assigned an addi­tion­al two elec­toral votes, regard­less of its size. Con­se­quent­ly, a vote from a per­son in a rur­al state has more influ­ence than a vote from an urban­ized area. This sys­tem has giv­en us five pres­i­dents who came in sec­ond in the people’s vote with mixed results. Three have made us ques­tion this sys­tem. With Ruther­ford Hayes, we got Jim Crow law that denied African Amer­i­cans their civ­il rights for more than 100 years. With George W. Bush, we got the Iraq war. With Don­ald Trump, well, we got – Trump!

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