Dispatches From the Fortress – Day 227

Hello. One of these days, the way voting will work is that you will send in your ballot via mail or some sort of online website…and before you tell me that online voting cannot be error-free or tamper-free, remember that (a) neither is the old polling place method and (b) companies like Wells Fargo and American Express can make online banking error-free enough and tamper-free enough to use it to move zillions of dollars around. At some point, you have to trust some arrangement to count your vote.

After your ballot is officially received, you can receive a little e-mail or log into a site like I just did that told me…

And I could then request that since my ballot is in, I receive no more mail trying to sway my vote, no more robocalls, no more door-to-door persuaders, no more political ads on my computer screen or my TV screen, no more messages from Donald Trump thanking me for the past support I've never given him, no more political commercials if I turn on my radio, no more leaflets on my front gate and I don't have to look at billboards, bumper stickers, skywriting or your lawn signs. It would be a felony with a stiff minimum sentence — oh say, ten years behind bars answering support questions for Brother Printers — if you show me any trace of the election. Or is that too lenient?