This Is All So Unnecessary

Stuck out here so far away from Sarah Palin's Lame Stream Media (or at least the television version of it, which is what she must mean, because we all know she doesn't read), I don't know what is being discussed. Thanks to my friend Fred for sending this link suggesting voter fraud in Cuyahoga County (Cleveland). I have since found that the internet is full of charges about voter fraud, not only in Ohio but in Philadelphia and spots of Florida. Unfortunately, they tend to be on websites which have zero credibility because of their obvious partisan bias.  It is clear that there are some people on the right who simply will not admit that their guy lost, or more importantly, that Obama won. 

But it is also clear that there never needs to be a question about the counting of votes. Sure, we like to sit up (until 5 in the morning in Brasil!!) and see the results start coming in seconds after the polls close, flipping among the channels to see how they compare. But I would gladly wait until the next day or even later to guarantee certainty and avoid these allegations of impropriety.  I know there are Federal election laws, but one of the problems is still our fucked up system that leaves the states in charge of their own processes. Remember Katherine Harris's rush to certify Bush the winner of Florida in 2000? The same Katherine Harris who was the Florida chair of Bush's campaign.

There are allegations, again on websites whose partisanship is showing, that Republican poll watchers were forced out of certain Philadelphia precincts. I have no idea what happened, or if that is true or false. But I do know it is 100% ridiculous that we have these uncertainies.

We should automatically know that people who question the validity of the elections are as loony as the mofos who are signing petitions in states around the country to secede from the Union. According to one of the same crazy websites which says Obama was reelected fraudulently, these petitions have now been filed in 34 states.

As an alternative, I recommend another petition called "Deport Everyone Who Signed A Petition  To Withdraw Their State From The United States Of America."