With the threat of impeachment hanging over our heads we made a decision to not publish official results
Last week, we asked you to vote on what you found most confusing about Election Day. Ironically, though, we did it through a Ballot Box of our own, which presupposed that elections aren’t rigged. Unfortunately, after sifting through the results, there are reports of election irregularity, with many readers submitting more than one choice and some totally blocked out of participating.
The most popular choice in last week’s poll was officially number three, but at least one of our editors who expressed support for choice two has refused to certify the results, leaving us in a quagmire. Stopping short of a full throated “stop the steal” rally complete with horned protesters, our editor has in no uncertain terms made it clear that she will not support publishing contested results, even though her allegations of “widespread fraud” are dubious at best. But with the threat of impeachment hanging over our heads we made a decision to not publish official results. Instead, we offer three alternative suggestions.
Here’s what gets me confused: I don’t know what a tax levy is. It’s that simple. Considering that it has the word “tax” in it, I’m inclined to vote no. But… what does “levy” mean? Maybe levy means you don’t have to pay taxes. And that gets a thumping yes. I was so confused I didn’t fill in any boxes. I just wrote the words “no taxes” and stuck it in the machine. No wonder they were reporting irregularities…
It’s not the elections that confuse me, it’s the craziness before elections. Like when you have some governor who spends the year leading up to the primaries in Iowa, New Hampshire, and North Carolina, wailing about the economy and how the middle class is being forgotten. Then some audacious reporter says, “Mr. Governor, do you plan on running for president?”
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