When is a democracy not a democracy?
The primary elections for presidential candidates have long passed. The results are in and have been reported to the appropriate parties for final votes for the candidate of their party. Yet we hear the Democrats asking the peoples choice Joe Biden to step down. They are very vocal about wanting him out and contributors are withholding funding according to news media.
These high-ranking Democrats are trying to press forward with their agenda, and to heck with what the people voted on.
According to Open Primaries “The presidential primaries cost taxpayers at least $287,806,312.9 in closed primary states and at least $427,300,168.79 for all states. Indeed, the lack of transparency by states on the costs of American elections likely makes the true costs of our primaries much higher. While 26.3 million voters in closed primary states were excluded from casting a single vote, their tax dollars still funded the party primaries.” https://www.openprimaries.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Taxpayer-Funding-The-Cost-of-Closed-Primaries.pdf
MIT information indicates that “Because of the data problems discussed below, there is no comprehensive understanding of how much is spent on ongoing administration and how much is spent to conduct specific elections. The research cited above by the UNC-Charlotte team, which was based on actual end-of-year spending reports, suggests that the cost of individual elections is about half of overall spending on election administration in a state, which should also account for ongoing administrative support, amortized capital expenditures, and state expenditures. Thus, the estimates in the 2010s that spending on elections was in the range of $2 billion to $3 billion is consistent with the total cost of elections being in the range of $4 billion to $6 billion, in a“normal” year, and that spending in 2020 could have reached $10 billion.6” https://electionlab.mit.edu/sites/default/files/2022-05/TheCostofConductingElections-2022.pdf
That is our (taxpayer) money. Our money, our vote, our voice. Do you want your money, vote and voice being quashed by the bureaucracy?
Our forefathers wrote “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
The people formed the government then and the power to form the government now is in the hands of the people, through the electoral process.
The Twenty-Fourth Amendment states that:
“The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.” https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/
States do not put electors on the ballot, they put the name of the candidates on the ballot.
The expectation is that the electors who are appointed will vote for the candidates that won the primary vote. That is how democracy works. Everything else is dictatorial. We the People do not want a dictatorship.
“34 Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin condemns any people.” Proverbs 14:34 New International Version
Holding true to the Constitution, in this case is righteousness, it is sin to disregard the will of the people.
If we let bureaucrats have their way and override the outcome of the primary elections, taking away our right to govern, what right will they take away next?
Do you want to live in a country where your voice is not heard?
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