Elections

The Constitution says that they are in the hands of the States.

The States, from the outset, have delegated down, down, down to the Counties.

To get it done, the Counties have delegated down and created voting precincts - about 200,000 of them.

Since 1788 that's how we have voted.

During that time, we have had an unbroken and uncontested (ultimately, after the dust settled) transition of power across the matrix of elective governance that always has been, and continues to be, The United States of America.

As time has passed, better ways of marking ballots and counting ballots have come and gone.

Over time some states. have opted to use Franklin's US Mail to transport the votes to the Counties.

Over time, time has passed, and things have changed.

But always, ever since 1788, the votes are cast, the votes are counted and close ones get adjudicated, and to date, every candidate but one since that first election, has gracefully accepted its result.

With about 100,000 votes between them, but the count in favor of Kennedy, in 1960, Nixon eschewed - for the good of the country - forcing some sort of national re-count.

Nixon accepted the count.

In 2000, after SCOTUS awarded the Presidency to Bush, with only 537 votes separating them, Gore - for the good of the Country - simply and gracefully conceded.

Gore accepted the count.

Leaving all the obvious verbal flame and brimstone that I should call down at this point and heap upon the head of the un-named one, I would rather merely assert: evaluate the single exception to our laudable record of transition of power as you will.

But I will fire that flame at SCOTUS: KEEP YOUR FUCKING HANDS OFF OUR ELECTIONS AND THEIR PROCESS.