Get out and vote!
It’s election day 2020 in the United States.
And here’s The Legal Genealogist‘s #1 Election Day rule:
You can’t complain about the results if you didn’t vote!
There’s really no excuse for not voting. Here, in the 100th anniversary year since the passage of the 19th amendment, we can remember that our mothers and grandmothers fought hard for this right. Americans have voted in peacetime and wartime, and in sickness (this is not our first pandemic…) and in health.
If you haven’t already done so, get up off your duff. Find your polling place. Wear a mask. Vote.
Oh, and because this year is just plain weird, here’s The Legal Genealogist‘s #1 special Election Day rule for this crazy year of 2020:
It’s not over until ALL votes are counted.
Seriously… if you didn’t vote, I’m not going to listen for one minute to any complaints about the results.
…until all LAWFUL votes are counted, per the rules in effect on election day.
Why are some people sooooooooo afraid of counting all the votes? It’s a bloody pandemic out there, in case you hadn’t noticed. If getting people out to vote means mail in or drive through or keeping polling places open until midnight, what is so scary about letting people vote? (That’s a rhetorical question…)
You’re not the only one who’s noticed the pandemic, with any due respect. I’d expect a lawyer to keep her head a little better. And to better respect the rule of law. Conduct the vote per the law, not based on the whims of lawyers and judges. If the election laws need to be fixed or updated, its the legislature’s job, not battalion of lawyers.
That’s HILARIOUS!!!!! Keep it up! Considering that the battalion of lawyers has been launched by one side to keep people from voting, you are making me laugh out loud more than anything else today! Thanks for the entertainment!
VOTE!!
Absolutely go vote now, if you haven’t already.
If you are worried about the Chinese Virus, you should have already obtained a proper absentee ballot and submitted it. The virus is being used too much as a cover for sketchy vote gathering and voter suppression.
I am in the ‘target population’ and did the early vote with no worries. No worse than going to the grocery or WallyWorld. Get off your bum and vote.
Sketchy vote gathering — I assume you mean like was done by one political party in California when it put up illegal ballot boxes. Voter suppression — like going to court repeatedly to try to stop perfectly valid absentee ballots from being counted. Yep, we agree 100% there.