Vote Early and Vote Often

The voters of  Chicago were once reminded to "vote early and vote often".  That reminder came from gangster Al Capone.*

Speaking of crooked people urging voter fraud...

Donald Trump during an interview on WECT in Wilmington NC called on Americans to vote twice: once by mail and once in person. 

I guess the thinking is if a mailed in vote doesn't get counted, then your in person vote will count? 

Since mailed in votes may not be completely counted by election day, this is not a viable test of the system.

It is still voting twice and that's bad.

Reminder: it's illegal to vote twice.

Trump has been ragging on mail in voting as rife with fraud. 
There is, of course, no evidence to support this. 

Trump's suggestion to voters to vote twice is inviting the very fraud that he rails against.

Reminder: it's illegal to vote twice.

Mr. "Law & Order" is telling people to break the law. 

Side note of irrelevance: Donald Trump and I have something in common. We've both appeared on WECT in Wilmington NC.

Many, many, many moons ago when I was a teenage Dave-El, my church's youth choir made an appearance on a local TV show on WECT.  

We were on the bill for that show with the then Miss North Carolina. Before we appeared on camera, I found myself sitting right behind Miss North Carolina. 

I marveled at how her hair glistened in the studio lights, each glorious golden strand of her perfectly coiffed hair glowing as if lit from within. I never wanted so badly to touch a woman's hair in my life. 

Since I was there with a church choir, I figured God was watching and decided not to touch her hair. 

Enough of that. 

After Trump's appearance on WECT-TV, the North Carolina state Attorney General Josh Stein had to issue the following statement: "Trump outrageously encouraged North Carolinians to break the law in order to help him sow chaos in our election. Make sure you vote, but do NOT vote twice! I will do everything in my power to make sure the will of the people is upheld in November.”

After sullying my home state with his idiotic and illegal idea of voting twice, Trump took his stupid, illegal, unethical and/or immoral shit act on the road and repeated the same preposterous idea in a speech in Pennsylvania.  

Reminder: it's illegal to vote twice.

Trump's urging people to vote twice (reminder: it's illegal) has not gone unnoticed by our allies overseas. 

Here's what German Foreign Affair Minister Heiko Maas had to say about this: “We owe an incredible number of things to the United States and the country remains one of our closest partners. But ... it is disturbing to see that an American president thinks he might need such a strategy. I have confidence that Americans’ good sense will scupper this unscrupulous effort to sow doubt on the validity of the election with the later aim, probably, of not accepting defeat."

In other words: it's illegal to vote twice.

Of course, as bad as Donald Trump is for saying and/or doing stupid, illegal, unethical and/or immoral shit, he has snivelling sycophants at the ready to not challenge him on his stupid, illegal, unethical and/or immoral shit. 

CNN's Wolf Blitzer asked Attorney General William Barr about Trump's call to illegally vote twice.

Bill Barr: “I don’t know what the law in those particular states says.” 

Reminder: it's illegal to vote twice.

Blitzer asked Barr if he knew of any states where it’s legal to vote twice for a candidate. 

Bill Barr: “Why are you asking me what he’s saying?” 

Wolf Blitzer: “You’re the attorney general of the United States.”

OK, let me take the liberty to re-transcribe that last statement with what I'm sure Wolf Blitzer was thinking.  

Wolf Blitzer: “You’re the god damn attorney general of the god damn United States, you god damn motherfucker!!!" 

Reminder: it's illegal to vote twice. 

There is no state or territory in the United States of America where it is NOT illegal to vote twice.

And FUCK You, Bill Barr! 

IT'S! 
ILLEGAL! 
TO! 
VOTE! 
TWICE!!!!

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*Editor's note: Bartlett's Familiar Quotations attributes the phrase "vote early and vote often" to William Porcher Miles in the year 1858. 

In 1926, historian James Morgan, identified John Van Buren as the originator of the phrase.  

There is some doubt as the original intent of "vote early and vote often". Some have attributed the meaning for voters to exercise the right to vote early on election day and participate in elections as they occur. Others usually interpet "vote often" as directive to vote more than once in a specific election. Some usage of "vote often" is meant as tongue in cheek while there have been those who are actually exhorting voters to commit fraud. 

Al Capone urged people to "vote early and vote often" to stuff the ballot box in favor of keeping his mob cronies in their government positions.