Did You Vote Early and Often?

This country is still the greatest country in the world but each passing year I lose more and more faith at how some people pay so little attention when it comes to the elections.

How is it that numerous dead people have been voted into offices? This year there were two; one in Florida and the other Alabama. The guy in Florida was 96 years old and still running for re-election (a twelfth term). It’s been reported that he rarely showed up for work while collecting a $150,000 salary and a $90,000 pension. How does one get a gig like that?

Other than dead people, there have been instances where animals have been voted as mayors of small towns, entire districts have failed to vote and in Tennessee a woman was elected constable because no one was on the ballot and her write in vote was the only vote cast.

The system needs to be changed, not so much to eliminate the uninformed and ones who go and vote strictly by race or straight political ties but to do away with potential voter fraud. I was never asked to show any form of ID on Tuesday even after I gave an erroneous address. I could have picked and chosen any name on that list that hadn’t voted and voted and then come back in and voted again. Why am I asked at my age,65, to show an ID when I go and buy wine, but not when I go and vote?

Maybe that’s where the saying, “Vote early and often,” comes from.

I hope and pray that a better system is in place for the next election.