Rant #3,537: I'm a Believer

In just less than two months, we will vote to elect a new president of our country.

Will it be Kamala Harris, our current vice president, or will it be Donald Trump, our former president?

Whoever wins, I think they will be victorious by a whisker.

And how are you voting--cssting your ballot at the polling place, or mailing in your ballot?

However you are planning to do it, I really hope that the winner wins gracefully and the loser loses gracefully, too.

The last time around, we all know that the validity of the vote was questioned, and that just can't be.

Personally, I don't think that the election was stolen, but yes, there were some irregularities--

But I don't think enough to overturn an election.

Nothing is perfect, and the voting process isn't, either.

But is it so out of whack that the results can be taken into question?

I don't think so, but let me tell you what happened to me two years ago.

As usual, I went early in the morning to my actual polling place to vote.

I went to the same table that I went to in the polling place since the first time I voted, in 1975.

The people there changed, but the place where I had to sign in was exactly the same as it had been for nearly 50 years.

I went to the table, told them where I lived, and they checked me off. They told me to take the paper ballot they handed to me and go to a designated spot to cast my vote, which I did.

But as I walked over to that spot, I realized that I did not sign the book that they had, the book that I previously signed every year that I had voted.

I didn't say anything, cast my vote, put it through the machine, and that was that.

I really didn't give it a second thought, until.i brought my mother and son to the same place to vote later in the day.

We all went to that same table, and they had my son and my wife sign in, as per normal.

One of the women at the table said to me, "What about you?"

I then told her that I had already voted, and she said to me that they did not have my signature, which, of course, I knew about already.

I don't remember if I ended up signing the book or not, but the fact of the matter is that if I hadn't said anything about already having voted, I could have voted in that particular election TWICE.

Again, I am sure that situations like this happen, but not enough to alter the outcome of an election.

Just sayin'.