And still more fake news


When I pointed out recently to a local "League of Women Voters" higher-up that Estes Park was still mailing out ballots to dead people, she snapped this was "a Larimer County clerk and recorder problem", not a League problem.  I wasn't asking for the League to solve the problem, I was just saying they might be interested in considering whether the deceased (probably the final and largest discriminated-against group in America) be extended the vote.  Is denying the rights of dead people to vote another example of a "fake voter suppression" effort?

When we had a recent hospital board election where at least 150 people's votes weren't counted because they hadn't received their ballots in the mail, our local League of Women Voters were where again?  At the Larimer County courthouse steps DEMANDING a delay?  Hiding behind unlisted telephone numbers?  Scheduling their next WaPo apologist speaker?

Puhlease - It's in your name:  Voters.  You should be advocating for everyone's right to vote, and every vote to count, not just gathering in an echo chamber to reinforce the talking points of those who buy your same brand of detergent.   Many of you are board hoppers.  If you truly believed in democracy, you would not be advocating for ignoring the constitution, rather you would be doing what your more honorable founders did (those who you are unqualified to even touch the hem of their garments), pursuing a constitutional amendment.  Just because your candidate lost doesn't mean we should throw out 200+ years of how elections in this country were constitutionally mandated (or the last 25 presidential elections, if you want to consider the voting bloc more recently un-disenfranchised).

Maybe consider a new motto:  Estes Park League of Women Voters - "We are not partisan, but if your views don't dovetail with ours, you are not welcome"

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