- Candidate X wins. Perhaps by a landslide, perhaps by a narrow margin — but either way, with a majority significant enough that, in the old days, Candidate Y would have conceded the competition, probably even with some semblance of dignity.
- Lawsuits are filed. The voting machines were rigged. Computers were hacked. People were bribed. You name it, and it will be a cause for the loss of an election.
- For the next bunch of months or years, we’ll hear one side or the other bitching non-stop about how the other side shouldn’t even be there.
If there’s a single person out there that thinks that our electoral system doesn’t need a complete overhaul — from top to bottom — then leave me a note telling me why. And then go have a nice tall glass of Draino, on me, because you’re so naive or blind that you shouldn’t be voting, much less taking up my air.
Not that I think it would improve the political landfill septic field arena of our country much. I’ve said it before, and I imagine my opinion won’t change before I’m meat for worms: politicians are the worst attributes of the human race, magnified 500X and painted a vomitous shade of neon green.
It would be nice, though, to know comfortably and with certainty exactly how stupid my fellow voters are, and while there’s a question of the honesty of the election results (especially on the level of doubt that lingers after the 2000 election and all the Diebold stories floating around on the web), I can’t be certain.
This is a non-partisan complaint, by the way. I think that Democrats are just as susceptible to the dark side of human nature Republicans are no more likely to cheat to win than it’s not a question of who is cheating as much as it is the ease with which one side can swing the vote falsely.
It’s just one more reason why I feel like no matter who wins today, we all lose in the end.