10/15/2026
Maybe there's a lesson to be learned here. The bottom line is that everything comes down to the COST of any given commodity. Like it or not votes, or more precisely ballots, are a valuable commodity these days. And it is the “ballots,” not the votes that actually count.
As of this writing, spending on this current 2026 election has amounted to almost $250Million including both Party/Candidate and Independent spending. About 2.5 million ballots are expected to be counted for the election. That’s about $1000 per ballot and growing. A reasonable guess to the cost of a “manufactured,” mail-in ballot, along with getting it to be counted might be $100 per ballot: The state prints and mails the ballot for “free”. Then you have the collection cost, $40 or so, and the processing. NGO’s are relatively cheap and even cheaper when they are run on the government’s dime.
Now consider that you don’t need to cheat in the whole state, only in key districts, cities, and counties. To steal an election, you only need to manufacture 5% (or so) of the votes cast. That’s about 120,000 state-wide and let’s say 60,000 for the key elections. 60,000 x $100 per ballot = $600,000. How does that compare to $250Million? Do you see a bit of disparity?
The answer to this problem is to increase the cost of the manufactured ballots, not necessarily the economic cost, but the cost to those who actually do the processing and the organizing. And you do that by inflicting heavy, heavy legal penalties. After all, acts involved in stealing elections, or taking the right of self-governance away from The People is equivalent to WAR against the people. And conspiracy to do the same is TREASON, which is punishable by death. Now, how does that thought boost the cost of manufactured ballots?
The solution is there. The problem that we have is getting the will to inflict it upon the guilty. Until someone has the balls to both take the situation seriously and take the needed action, elections will CONTINUE to be stolen.
“Send ‘em all to their maker and he’ll settle ‘em down.” Life is a country song.