By Old Guy Larry Wiwi, a Franklin County resident
As I write this little rant, it has been seven days since the election and we still do not know the outcome of many races, most importantly of course the presidency. We have a presidency at stake, a country at stake but most important, we have the truth at stake. My wife of 36 years nearly collapsed when I said last week that I cared much more about the truth prevailing than I do about President Trump winning, but it is true.
Without a truthful counting of legally cast ballots, we will all lose faith and belief in the integrity of our elections and when a country loses that, corruption and greed rule, and the side that is best at cheating wins every time. We stand here literally on the precipice of falling into that abyss and few countries have made it out of that abyss without a violent revolution.
That we currently do not have truth is hardly arguable as we have states with more votes counted than registered voters – pretty amazing since voter often hovers around 50%. We have uncovered software glitches passing votes to the wrong candidate and the curious phenomenon of Biden outperforming Clinton and Obama in the large cities in the swing states, but nowhere else in the entire country.
Sadly, even if we do get truth, a sizable portion of the opposition whoever it may be, will still believe they were cheated and the game was rigged, setting the stage for more years of division and accusations. This is what happens when you degrade the sanctity and security of the voting process, and there is one party that opposes every effort to remove deceased and inactive voters from registered voter lists and anything requiring positive identification of the citizen casting the vote. We do not need a voting month, we need a day, and we do not need mail in ballots for all, we need the control of the absentee ballot process that has always been available to anyone. If we had that, we still might not have truth, but we would be much closer than we are now.
If we really do get truth and Americans really did intentionally vote for their own demise in the choice for socialism, that is a choice we are free to make regardless of how destructive it will be. That said, I am keeping the faith that truth will prevail and if it does, I am confident President Trump will have four more years.
Larry Wiwi