It's Almost Over, But The Counting

Uncle! Please, Stop, I'll tell you all the military secrets I know. Just stop the insanity of the political commercials.

They are unrelenting, right. I just sat through three minutes of back and forth charges on just one race. Is the Saxby Chambliss – Joe Martin race the most important one in the country? It must be if there's that much money being put into it.

Thank goodness, I'm immune to the ads. We voted early at the first of October. We thought the advance voting line was long but decided to wait out the 45 minute line to get it over with. Good thing because every day the wait grew exponentially. At times the lines were up to four or five hours long with the last person in line casting their ballot after midnight.

This, of course, brought out the charges of voter suppression and racism. Voters have 30 times longer to vote than most any other election and someone is holding people back?

Can you imagine the same complaints if long lines of white, middle aged men wearing suits were standing in line? No.

And what about the systematic suppression of the military vote? In 2000 the Gore campaign worked actively to keep military votes from being counted. Today there are numerous examples of military votes being challenged. Let's work to protect the freedoms that our military is fighting for.

The actions of ACORN and others have raised the specter of voter fraud. It's easy to see what is happening when some voters are registered 72 times and illegal aliens are added to the lists. While this is documented, AJC columnist Cynthia Tucker writes about the "myth of voter fraud." This is the same newspaper that won awards for its reports of South Georgia counties where dead residents voted, in alphabetical order.

If voter fraud is a myth, then perhaps so too is underage drinking and there should be no need for ID cards to purchase alcohol. Isn't it strange that the same people who buy beer the day before and after the election and flash their ID card to the clerk, have a philosophical opposition to showing it to an election official once every four years.

Of course it does lead to some strange conversations: "Hi Allan. Hi Estell. Glad to see you at church Sunday, How are the kids? Fine. Can I see some ID?

Go vote and hope for miracles.