Free & Fair Elections Or No Elections

This is deplorable stuff.  I understand that, as regards the election that just took place in Alabama,

a) It was reported as having been extremely close;

b) There are questions about both the count and the voting;

c) One of the contenders has legitimately asked for a recount;

d) The judge closest to the scene authorized that recount; but

e) The Supreme Court of the State of Alabama overruled the local judge, and authorized the destruction of the digital record of the count.  With an extremely, and suspiciously, swift ruling on the matter.  All of which smells like cover-up.  And must not stand.

I don't care who was involved as candidates in the election.  They both deserve to know the outcome of such a legitimate review of the matter.1

The 'matter' also including the fact that a video has surfaced on the Internet showing one of the celebrating backers at the Jones campaign headquarters saying into the mike of the TV interviewer that he was one of those of their 'team '(I forget the precise word that he used there) who had come from out of state to campaign and, quote, "to vote" for their man, and  he was overjoyed that their man had won. A 'damage control' person on the Comments thread under the copy of this video that I saw said that the guy "obviously" meant that he had come there "to get out the vote" for his man.  But "to vote for" and "to get out the vote for" are two different things.  Now, "gross negligence" and "extreme carelessness" could very easily be mistaken for each other.2  But "to vote for" and "to get out the vote for" - ???  Some legitimate question there.3

But that's not the main issue here.  The main issue here is that our elections need to be clean and fair, and be seen as clean and fair; and to destroy the evidence before a legitimate recount can take place is not doing that.  It is, in blunt point of fact, doing the exact opposite.  And that is why it must not stand.

What would I do, in this instance?

I would rally my fellow Alabamans to besiege the governor and demand that he hold up the whole business until more honorable heads can prevail;4 and in the meantime, make sure, by the use of his National Guard, that nothing happens either to the electronic/digital record of the vote or to the paper ballots themselves; and to issue the word immediately that if anyone tries to destroy or succeeds in destroying either the digital record or the paper ballots themselves, that they will be charged to the fullest extent of the law, fined and sent to prison for their proven offense.  But if the governor of the great state of Alabama refuses to step in to set this matter right - and quickly, before any further damage is done - he needs to witness the full force of the federal government, coming in to protect the rights of the U.S. citizens in his great state; to see that Justice is served, and served honorably.

Enough is enough. It's time to Clean House - fully - in this country.

And this 'little matter' is a good place to start.  


P.S. I should perhaps warn/point out that anybody who engages in the likes of voter or electoral fraud will automatically miss the cut (that you/we are facing imminently), and will just have to wait for their next go-'round.  A process that could conceivably take thousands of years, to reach this same point of liftoff.
     A word to the wise.  In making your choice.  Which involves far, far more than just this 'little matter' alone.  

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footnotes:

1 And if a legitimate review of the matter in fact turns up fraud, enough to taint the outcome fundamentally, the election needs to be canceled, and run again; and this time, with certifiably cleaned voter registration rolls, and better procedures in general.  Including photo IDs, and other measures, for Election Integrity to have some teeth to it.  Not the namby-pamby procedures that have led to such corrupt practices, and outcomes, that we haves also seen elsewhere in the country.
   A country that is rapidly taking on the appearance of a particularly corrupt banana republic. Which may need some of the same sorts of counter-measures installed, such as dipping a voter's finger in purple ink for the day.  And thus, no  Early Voting allowed; and so forth.
   That is to say: For us to have to be treated like children.  Who, having proven to be very naughty, need to be sent to the Naughty Corner.
   The ultimate insult.

2 As has occurred with a virulently anti-Trump FBI person changing the wording of Dirctor Comey's statement regarding Hillary's emails, from the first wording, which is a crime, to the second, which is, unaccountably, not a crime.

3 And another possibility here is that the fellow was in fact a citizen of Alabama but had been out of state attending school elsewhere.  But which in its own right brings up the question, whether he had been registered to vote in both the state where he was going to school and in his home state; which as I understand it, is one of the scams that Democrats in particular are wont to engage in, corruptly get their youth to engage in.
   All of which is part of the terrible scene in this country, of how our elections have become a farce; the plaything of the kinds of people who have sunk to the level of consciousness of a tyrant like Stalin, as expressed when he said (words to the effect) that it doesn't matter who votes; what matters is who counts the votes.
   And here we are.  Teetering on tyranny.  And now, one that would control the whole world.
   But to continue.

5 I.e, to hold a Recall on the judges involved.
   Judges need to be accountable to the people, just like our elected representatives.  That's why they are in their positions - of great responsibility - subject to "good behavior".  In relation to the rule of law, i.e., the Constitution.  Not to their personal socio-political proclivities.
   A major Change needed, and systemically in the country as a whole, as regards the corruption of that principle.