Rigged Voting System

October 19^th  2016

Donald Trump is correct. The election process is rigged. But not the way he thinks it is.  In fact his statements in themselves are an attempt to rig the voting in his favor by intimidating voters and preventing some from exercising their constitutional right to vote. He has stirred up fears of virtually nonexistent issues, and encouraged the less civil in our midst to make things difficult for the timid, the marginalized, the poor and the elderly to vote.  It has been proven time and again that there is no basis to his claim of voter fraud, yet he and his cronies continue this charade to stir up the mass of people whose biases make them easy pickings for such conspiracy theorists. 

There are however real issues with our current election process. The highly conservative Supreme Court has gutted the voting rights act, opening the gates for republican controlled states to gleefully enact tougher voting ID laws targeting minorities who generally support democrats. We live in such a state. Additionally the system to create voting districts along partisan lines by whoever is in power has disenfranchised many of us. In Georgia, nearly half the population supports a liberal agenda, yet only 4 out of 14 congressional representatives are democrat, and both senators are republican. The vast majority of state legislators and executives are republican. They don't represent my point of view at all, so the only voice I have is my vote, which is unfortunately drowned out by the rigged system of Georgia gerrymandering. That isn't what our founders envisaged in our representative republic, but I will continue to vote and I encourage all citizens to vote thoughtfully so that we might change this rigged system to benefit us all.