Gaming the System

  AS THE 2020 ELECTION APPROACHED, Harris county, Texas, the home of Houston, like the rest of the country, was confronted with the problem of how to safely and effectively hold an election in the middle of a pandemic. Election administrator Isabelle Longoria did some brain storming, and came up with some creative, innovative ideas about how to safely get out the vote. They included an expanded absentee voting period and mail in vote opportunity. what better way to give folks the chance to vote with very little direct human contact? Also included were expanded voting hours for early in person voting and election day in person voting, an increased number of polling places, all measures designed to make it easier and more convenient to vote, providing maximum opportunity to cast a ballot, while thinning out the crowd. Her most brilliant innovation was truly all American: drive thru voting! All these changes were remarkably successful; more than a hundred thousand people drove thru and voted fast food style, and the overall turnout in Houston and around the country, with many of the same innovations in place, was record setting. Amid the record turnout nary a trace of fraud was discovered in any precinct in the country, including those in which the innovations were implemented.The election of 2020 was the most fair, free, and efficient election in American history, according to all investigations and reliable sources, including the FBI and others. The only problem with the election is that it resulted in the defeat of Donald Trump, the election of Joe Biden, and the installation of a Congress in which both houses are controlled by the Democratic party, an unacceptable outcome from the Republican point of view. Infuriated to the point of denial and delusion, most republicans embraced Trump's lie that the election had been stolen, despite the complete lack of any evidence to suggest it. Of teh tens of thousands of Republican poll workers in thousands of voting precincts across the country, there came not a single instance of reported fraud or election rigging of any sort. Unable to overturn the election results in the court system or in the electoral college, unable to usurp democracy and steal the election victory from Joe Biden, and unable to violently overthrow the federal government in an act of sheer desperation with a violent insurrection at the U/.S. Capitol building, the Republicans have now turned to voter suppression as their final defense. They are now engaged in about half the states ina project to make it more difficult to vote, ostensibly to eliminate voter fraud, which has been proven to be nearly nonexistent, but in reality to decrease the number of voters, especially poor minorities who usually vote Democratic, Republicans hape to change their future fortunes, knowing that only with a much lower voter turn out can they hope to gain and retain political power. This is how low the conservative movement and the Republican party have sunk. This is, as President Biden said, "sick".