As the dust settles or is it?

As the dust settles or is it?

Well, here we are .. the day after the big vote.

The mid term elections…

Who survives… the liars and cheats.. or the good people of United States of America?   Way things have been of late,

It is hard to say..

I am sure most of the voting counting isn’t over. There is the absentees that have to be counted, as they are written so slower to count…  Volunteers counting thru the night until they are stir crazy….  Some of the poll places have changed back to marking on paper because of all the stories about different states being hacked. 

Some of the states are using the post office… as the ballots where mailed out the last two weeks.. so they are coming in… and as long as they are postmarked the 5^th.. they have to be counted.  Again.. one by one… verifying first that the signature is in fact the person who is voting.. open next envelope and remove the ballot, … smoothing it out from being folded.. and placed in the pile.. next volunteer is counting that pile… And piles there are.  Hundreds for many places… smaller town probably if they are lucky there is a thousand in all.. and the real small towns.. have maybe 100 or even less.. Our little berg averages 32. Then turn into the county court house…

All of this will take time. Answers won’t be in, until  the wee hours at best… way past the deadline of the newspaper, so your morning paper won’t have the end results either..  so if we are lucky we will have an idea who won by the night fall of the 7^th if we are lucky and in the newspaper on the 8^th..

So much for the modern day of computers and fast results.

Personally…..  I like the fact it is going to take a few days..

And this year.. this particular midterm election.. they say the turn out is more than the Presidential year.  I truly hope so. I hope everyone who can vote… voted.. 

And as the dust settles… will you be happy?   Will there be cries of fraud?  There are always that.. will there be recounts?  You can bet on that… So hang on to your hats folks.. this is going to be a hell of a ride.