Additive/Subtractive

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Trying to restart good habits again.  The past couple of weeks have been pure sloth and sloppiness.  I'm still out trying to get back across the Columbia, but the federal hiring process is a slow, slow process.  

The Republicans feel it is unfair that the Democratic method of rigging elections is Might be more effective this election.  The time honored democratic method of rigging an election involves ballot box stuffing, which is basically increasing the vote size and and basically stuffing the ballot box.

This time honored method is is probably going to be more effective than the Republican means of election fraud.  Republicans specialize in voter suppression and basically making it hard to vote for anybody but white people.  I can understand the Republicans chagrin as they felt that this was a more stylish and efficient means of election rigging.  Theirs is a cost-effective methodology that targets folks that would curtail the vote of those likely not to buy their bullshit.  Works reasonably well.

Truth be told, both methods are the actions of assholes.  Both methods corrupt the election process.  Both methods are ostensibly illegal.   Given my choice, I would tend to lean ever so slightly toward the Republican method as it is more surgical and limits things to a small sector of the electorate.  It is still bullshit.

The democratic ballot box stuffing is less democratic in a real sense.  I am a curmudgeon who feels that voting is not supposed to be that easy, it should require effort and commitment.  It should be limited to citizens only.  One person, one vote.  The democratic effort allows a coterie to have power beyond the one-person, one-vote ideal.  

I don't think that the United States has ever had a fraud-free election.  Truth be told, I don't think such a thing is in the realm of possibilities.  

Fuck both parties, and just for good measure, fuck the Greens too....putting up a loser slate like theirs just shows what idiots they are.