You believe the concept of stealing elections is something new? Think Again.
LBJ: Another history lesson.
In 1941 a young congressman named Lyndon Baines Johnson ran for the Texas Senate against (in the end) the 34th Governor of Texas, Wilbert Lee “Pappy” O’Daniel. If you’d like to know more about Pappy and the election, feel free to do further research yourself.
To make a long story short, LBJ campaigned his heart out and by the end of the campaign, Johnson was still considered the underdog but was closing the gap with each passing day. By election night, with 96% of the vote counted. Johnson had a 5000 vote lead over O’Daniel and was confident he had won the Senate race. Many in Washington were already sending their congratulations to Johnson. He had been declared the winner by the Texas Election Bureau that Saturday night. The Dallas News Headline on Sunday morning had also declared Johnson elected to the Senate.
Then the unthinkable began to happen. Johnson’s 5000 vote lead began to mysteriously dwindle. Votes were somehow, magically being whittled away.
At this time in history – it was not unusual, especially in South and East Texas to stuff the ballot box. John Connally – who was Johnson’s campaign manager – knew this all too well. Connally honestly believed this wouldn’t be a problem, but certain counties kept changing leads and returns in O’Daniel’s favor. Connally then (without malice) made the fatal error of revealing to the opposition how many votes would be needed in order to defeat Johnson. And that’s exactly how many votes O’Daniel received – 1311 votes – stealing the election away from Johnson.
Johnson knew the election had been stolen from him yet declined to contest it because his own team had done some unsavory things as well, including violating numerous campaign finance laws. [He] said “I’ll wait my turn.” He wasn’t about to make the same mistakes twice.
After 7 long years, he decided to run for the Senate again. His opponent was the 35th Governor of Texas – Coke R. Stevenson.
Lyndon campaigned this time mainly by saying whatever voters wanted to hear. And – remembering what had happened during the 1941 election, he left nothing to chance.
While the vote counting was coming to a close, Stevenson was still winning by just a few votes. George Parr, controlled the votes in South Texas. People voted the way [He] wanted them to. And Parr was for sale. Six days after the polls had closed, 202 additional votes were discovered in ballot precinct box 13 in the town of Alice, Texas. 200 were for Johnson.
While Stevenson did try to contest the election, it was of no use. Johnson and his team were too powerful. Johnson won the election by 87 votes. However, the stigma of a stolen election would follow him for the rest of his life.
Although he did have a photo, possibly for sentimental reasons – Johnson never would admit knowing anything about who was – or might have been responsible for stealing the election but he was well aware it was in fact, stolen.
End of History lesson.
2022 and beyond
Sure – the 2020 election was stolen and what makes me angry is that the powerful knows that we know it. It’s like they’re saying… “Sure! We stole the election – what are you going to do about it?”
Forgive my French but I can’t think of another way to put this. In all battleground states – this 2020 Presidential election was a well organized and well orchestrated clusterfuck….. and was designed to be that way for two reasons.
1. To screw things up so badly, it would be impossible to untangle it all within the time allotted to do so.
2. That the only way to fix it would be to throw out the entire vote and have special elections in all battleground states. Which would never happen. The media would make sure of it.
Democrats win this time because there is nothing the American people can do about the 2020 election, including the Georgia run-off elections.
This now gives Democrats complete power to do pretty much whatever they like for the next two years. They are well aware that they will lose both houses come 2022 so believe me when I say, major changes will take place and it will be accomplished completely on party lines.
Whether you personally believe it or not, half of this country (70+ Million Americans) firmly believes the 2020 election was stolen – with more than credible reasons for believing so. The public, no matter which side they’re on – and especially when their side loses – will continue these beliefs until something changes! So……………..
Want to have an HONEST election? Here’s how you do it.
1. All voters must be registered to vote in the State they reside in. To register, you must prove you are a resident of the state you plan to vote in.
2. All voters who intend to vote in person must provide a valid ID card proving you are a resident of that State and you are registered to vote in that State.
3. All voters who plan on voting by mail must be registered in that state and have proved they are a resident of that state along with a signature on file.
4. All mail in and absentee ballots must be requested by the voter through a signed request form. (or online if they have already registered.) Once the signature, address and registration have been validated, a ballot with a unique code will be sent to that address.
5. All ballots sent out must have a unique code on the privacy envelope to insure the ballot is specifically for the registered voter along with a place for the voter to sign it. This will insure that the ballot was sent and filled out by the registered voter who requested it.
6. All mail in and absentee ballots must be returned in their privacy envelopes with a signature.
7. All mail in ballots will not be opened until the signatures and identifying codes on the privacy envelopes for each ballot have been verified. The signature must match and identifying code must match with the records the voter registrar have on file for that particular ballot before it can be opened.
8. All ballots not returned in their privacy enveloped with the unique identifier and verified signature or if there is no signature on the privacy envelope will be immediately declared invalid and discarded. IF people can’t follow simple instructions… tough shit.
9. Mail in and absentee ballots can be requested at any time. Requested Ballots will be sent out no earlier than 30 days before an election and must be returned no later than 2 days before the day of election. They can either be dropped off or returned by mail but it will be the voters responsibility to make sure his or her completed ballot has been returned on time. All ballots received after this date will be immediately declared invalid and discarded. Again, IF people can’t follow simple instructions… tough shit.
10. No more electronic voting machines. Paper ballots only.
11. All vote counting machines must be subject to approval by a majority of both political parties in a States legislature.
12. All Signature verifying machines/unique code scanners and tabulators must be subject to approval by a majority of both political parties in a States legislature.
13. Any questionable ballots must be set aside until the signatures and unique codes can be verified. Once verified the ballots can be opened and counted. They will be verified by one poll watcher from each party.
14. All provisional ballots must be sealed in a signed privacy envelope and may not be opened until the reason for the provisional ballot has been resolved.
15. Hi-resolution security recording cameras will be placed in every area where ballots will be handled and counted. Monitored by poll watchers from each party in a separate room so as not to disturb those who are handling the ballots.
16. If at anytime – a camera goes down or quits recording, an alarm will go off in the area where the ballots are being handled or counted – all activity will immediately stop and will continue only when the camera is up and running again.
There you go – problems solved. Feel free to pass these rules along to your state legislators.
You’re Welcome
Have I left anything out? Probably. But if the suggestions above are fully implemented, (As I’m certain many already are in some states,) I honestly don’t know how anyone could complain about unfair elections.
The Voter ID Argument
The assertion that mandating some form of an ID card in order to vote is somehow a form of voter suppression is unbelievably absurd. In fact, I find it ludicrous that one would even attempt to make the assertion in the first place. Unless you live in a cave and have everything one requires to remain alive on this planet provided for you, you need to have some form of identification. I am well over fifty years old and while in California, I was required to provide an ID card to purchase a cigarette lighter. It’s almost comical to believe that while the majority of Americans think nothing of breaking out our ID Cards to do most anything these days and at the same time believe that requiring an ID to vote in US elections is not only abhorrent, crying voter suppression but racists as well.
Sorry folks, it just isn’t.
