Most of you will line up against me in defense of, “You Can’t Beat a Dead Horse” but I will line up against those most of you and say it’s my Blog and I can beat a dead horse if I want to and I want to...
I published this Blog Posting at least 2 times. I like it because it makes so much sense in a Silly kind of way.
First published May 4, 2010:
Too
Many Members Of Congress Can’t Handle Numbers
This may seem elementary to those of you who have gone through the 5th grade.
Lots of numbers are being thrown around our 9% Approval Rating Congress these days. I watched in amazement yesterday on CSPAN as one of our elected "leaders" said the following …
"My good friend from the other side of the aisle has
just voiced strong opposition to my proposal to spend $10 Billion to convert
all states that are using Paper Ballots to Electronic Voting Machines and to
convert all states who are using Electronic Voting Machines to Paper Ballots. I
continue to be amazed at the short sightedness of the Opposition Party and
their ongoing inability to handle basic arithmetic with regard to a mere $10
Billion price tag.”
"I am sure that the folks back home have no problem
with spending $10 Billion for such a worthy project. They understand that 10 is
not a big number. 11 is bigger than 10 & so is 12. If I were asking for
100, that ought to give pause to the taxpayers as to how their money is being
spent but 10 is only 10. It is hardly more than 9."
"Beam me up Lord. I can no longer stand being around such
penny-pinchers who are not smarter than a 5th grader."
Ok, I admit I made up all of the above … or did I?
Would I kid u?
Smartfella
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There appears to be a growing distrust of Electronic Voting Machines. This harkens back to what Aristotle (or someone else) once said, “If you set up vote counting so it can be manipulated, the vote counting will be manipulated.”
The tide appears to be turning against the Electronic Voting Machine side of this Foolishness. Here is an excerpt from a 1/14/23 article (yesterday).
The Western Journal
Court Votes to Remove Voting Machines from Election, Turns to Paper Ballots and Hand Counting Only
By Warner Todd Huston January 14, 2023 at 3:18pm
A county in Arkansas is joining a growing number of localities turning against electronic voting machines and going back to paper ballots as more and more Americans come to distrust the reliability and safety of voting machines.
A Cleburne County quorum court voted last week to end the use of the electronic vote machines and go back to reliable paper ballots, requiring all future elections to be hand counted, according to KARK-TV.
“These voting machines, which are really just computers, do not follow US or Arkansas election laws which clearly state that voters have the right to verify that their votes are properly being represented when entered into the tabulation computer,” Arkansas Voter Integrity Initiative (AVII) CEO Colonel Conrad Reynolds said in a Dec. 19 press release.
If you want to read the whole article, click here: https://www.westernjournal.com/court-votes-remove-voting-machines-election-turns-paper-ballots-hand-counting/
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As for Fella’s take on all of this here is what he had to say, “Hey, machine, don’t let the door knob hit ya!”
Would I kid u?
Smartfella
