Elections have been crooked for a very long time. In the early 80s my life along with those of my siblings were threatened when our guardian, serving as an election judge asked, “What’s this?” When ballots where brought in through a back door after the polls closed. The county big wig looked our guardian in the eye and said, not whispe…
Elections have been crooked for a very long time. In the early 80s my life along with those of my siblings were threatened when our guardian, serving as an election judge asked, “What’s this?” When ballots where brought in through a back door after the polls closed. The county big wig looked our guardian in the eye and said, not whispered though not yelled, “(Name_, you know exactly what this is and if you don’t what anything to happen to (my name) and (the names of my siblings) you’ll keep your mouth shut.” Standing next to the speaker was the sheriff who also stared at our guardian. The county I grew up in had never voted in a Republican into office since the civil war, which if you know history, is quite a statement.
While in the Navy here in Japan, none of the Federal write in ballots for the presidential election requested by afloat commands arrived in time. Clinton (Bill) was reported to have gotten a huge amount of the military vote. If what we saw here in Yokosuka, then he only got a huge percentage of the military vote who were allowed to vote.
Being a civil war buff, I have somewhat recently ran across a huge election fraud scam conducted against New York soldiers in the Civil War. It was discovered by a State official who was sent to investigate strange goings on with voting among his state’s soldiers and lead to several convictions. It is an old game that if we had better education on the subject, would be much easier to deal with.
I agree with you 100%. This is kind of strange but we had exposure to the corruption as kids too. My father went from rags, to riches to rags. In the riches part of his life before all fell apart he was the chief of staff of a republican congressman. It was impossible after that to grow up without realizing what a sham it all was. I appreciate the dialogue. I will be happy to vote for any letter if they aren't corrupted but that is a big ask. I try to stay positive by recognizing that people calling it all out are on both sides of the aisle: Dr Kory D, Dr Mcoullough R, Rubin I think R, Bigtree D etc... I can't see that letters matter anymore.
I didn’t know of it at the time. I knew something happened but had no idea what nor even what it was connected with until I told my guardians of the shenanigans with voting while in the navy. That just wasn’t something you can trust a child to keep secret nor should you tell them of such danger any way.
Elections have been crooked for a very long time. In the early 80s my life along with those of my siblings were threatened when our guardian, serving as an election judge asked, “What’s this?” When ballots where brought in through a back door after the polls closed. The county big wig looked our guardian in the eye and said, not whispered though not yelled, “(Name_, you know exactly what this is and if you don’t what anything to happen to (my name) and (the names of my siblings) you’ll keep your mouth shut.” Standing next to the speaker was the sheriff who also stared at our guardian. The county I grew up in had never voted in a Republican into office since the civil war, which if you know history, is quite a statement.
While in the Navy here in Japan, none of the Federal write in ballots for the presidential election requested by afloat commands arrived in time. Clinton (Bill) was reported to have gotten a huge amount of the military vote. If what we saw here in Yokosuka, then he only got a huge percentage of the military vote who were allowed to vote.
Being a civil war buff, I have somewhat recently ran across a huge election fraud scam conducted against New York soldiers in the Civil War. It was discovered by a State official who was sent to investigate strange goings on with voting among his state’s soldiers and lead to several convictions. It is an old game that if we had better education on the subject, would be much easier to deal with.
I agree with you 100%. This is kind of strange but we had exposure to the corruption as kids too. My father went from rags, to riches to rags. In the riches part of his life before all fell apart he was the chief of staff of a republican congressman. It was impossible after that to grow up without realizing what a sham it all was. I appreciate the dialogue. I will be happy to vote for any letter if they aren't corrupted but that is a big ask. I try to stay positive by recognizing that people calling it all out are on both sides of the aisle: Dr Kory D, Dr Mcoullough R, Rubin I think R, Bigtree D etc... I can't see that letters matter anymore.
I doubt that he threatened to have anybody killed though, especially kids.
I have long thought that the only difference between most Ds and Rs are the roles they are assigned by central casting.
That is the best description I have heard. I am very sorry you were directly threatened as a kid. I wish I could say it surprises me but it doesn't.
I didn’t know of it at the time. I knew something happened but had no idea what nor even what it was connected with until I told my guardians of the shenanigans with voting while in the navy. That just wasn’t something you can trust a child to keep secret nor should you tell them of such danger any way.