Electile Dysfunction

In all my years of writing and reading blogs, I never could've imagined authoring a post like this one. For all the histrionics people say about Trump doing this or Trump saying that, I'm sitting here on a Saturday night wondering if I've had a front row seat to a rigged primary election.

One thing I've always liked about our past elections was California BallotTrax. This third party company notifies you via email or text any status changes for your ballot. Everything from when it's mailed out to you to when it's counted by the local Registrar of Votes, and every event in between you're notified. It gives everyone confidence our mail in voting system is safe and secure.

This year I smell a rat, and not the kind in Tewksbury. 

I usually mail in my ballot within a week of receiving it, and this time it was delivered to the Registrar of Voters on May 15th. However, I have yet to receive any further updates from BallotTrax. I find this very troubling since 73% of my Congressional district's ballots have already been counted as of this morning. 

I haven't discussed this with my sister, the lone Democrat I'm on speaking terms with on a semi regular basis, but I've spoken to Bert and my Libertarian next door neighbors about this. After doing so, I discovered we have something in common: We all voted early and none of us have received confirmation our ballots were counted.

I look forward to the Department of Justice looking into matters. If we can't guarantee fair elections in California, then there's nothing stopping this from happening in the other forty nine states in November.