2016 Presidential Election Results Will Be Questioned- a Commentary

At the time of this writing I have no idea who won the 2016 Presidential Election for the United States.

This election has been fraught with accusations of fraud, illegal activities, corruption, and personal character assassinations on both sides. The mainstream media has shown unprecedented bias which only serves to destroy the vary thing that made journalists so important- integrity and impartiality in reporting.

Several years ago former Vice-President Al Gore ran for election to take the place of Bill Clinton who had already served as president for 8 years. He demanded a recount because votes were not counted and a little something called a hanging chad in the Florida ballot punch cards. Everyone thought he was just a sore loser, and that may be so, but it was his right to challenge the tally, especially with the challenged ballots and uncounted ballots.

Donald Trump has already announced he will exercise his right to do the same thing in the event he doesn't win because there have been so many allegations of illegal activity against the democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. He is being called a sore loser before the ballots are even tallied or cast. Unfortunately, he is right to assume the tally may be skewed. There is technology that was not available in previous elections, and actually, it is not legal to use it. I'm talking about photographing or video taping anything going on in the voting booth. People are doing it anyway. It has become a civic duty for them to do so, as only reporting the issues with the electronic ballot system may not be enough. Video has been showing up from early voting to election day voting that the electronic ballots are not actually recognizing the results of the voters. In some cases it refuses to register anything that is cast for the Republican Party, and in other cases it is outright changing the votes from Republican to Democrat right before their eyes. This is ridiculous! Paper ballots were not counted and some actually destroyed rather than be counted for candidates in the Democratic party in order to guarantee the candidate the party preferred won the nomination.There are also reports of intimidation of voters is going on and poll workers wearing tee shirts supporting the democratic candidate. That advertising for a certain candidate thing is actually highly illegal. Pamphlets, handbills, signage, or soliciting votes in any way is actually illegal within so many feet of a polling place. (Check for local ordinances on distance.)

What the hell is going on in this country people? This is the United States of America! We founded the idea of fair, free, and democratic elections. We often send the United Nations in to other countries to try to guarantee the same right to their citizens. I never thought I would see the day that the United States would need UN observers to monitor OUR elections to make sure they are fair and un-tampered with. We may be facing a civil war type atmosphere over this election when the results are revealed because people will just not believe the results one way or the other. Why should they?

Please try to remember when this is all said and done that we are one nation - indivisible, who has proven time and again that we can get through anything as long we stand together. Curb your tendency toward violence if this doesn't go your way.