ELECTION RESULTS BELOW: Polls start closing in less than an hour now.
April Fool’s Day may seem to be an odd one to hold an election, but then again, many people worry that our elections in America have become something of a joke.
They aren’t, of course, even though a conversation with any Republican insider will give you a sour view of how elections are conducted in our fine country.
The ridiculously amateur execution of the process, the concerted effort to prevent any sort of ballot security, and the inability of Democrats – why is it always in Deep Blue states and localities that counting votes is beyond their ken? – to come up with results in a timely manner, have left Republicans deeply cynical.
I have spoken to a number of establishment insiders – not conspiracy theorists, but people who have navigated the process for decades, often successfully…
