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Happy Election Day to my fellow Americans! Here's one of my sixteen social-media posts today to acknowledge this day's passage. As for myself, I've learned to expect disappointment on Election Day, but I hope that my fellow liberty-lovin' Americans will eventually begin to engage in precinct-level activism and, thereby, start to effectively build our movement's ranks to become at least as numerous and/or effective as the ranks of our statist adversaries. But, until then, I'll strive to endure our present oppressive government as well as I can.

I love how Information Age technology is rendering it easier to research candidates for public office (even the smallest offices) before voting, either via in-person ballot on election day or via absentee ballot in advance (which allows voters more time to help their peers on election days). I think that we should ideally evaluate candidates according to their voting records, rather than their campaign rhetoric, since the former is too-often more reliable than the latter, but this isn't always possible. I browsed the Internet for helpful information about this year's candidates at all levels but wasn't very pleased with them in general, as usual.

If you're registered to vote in Utah, then you may visit vote.utah.gov (which I posted about earlier today) to determine your local polling-place, as well as to view a "sample ballot" so that you may learn (and then research) your options before you vote. You may likewise view election results at electionresults.utah.gov, among many other websites.

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Happy Election Day to my fellow Americans! Here's one of my sixteen social-media posts today to acknowledge this day's passage. Election Day is arguably a good day for us liberty-lovin' Americans to consider how to better prevail over our statist adversaries, who now dominate our society's positions of wealth and power and influence, and especially its political system (in BOTH parties). We won't defeat them by doing nothing more than voting straight-ticket something on Election Day, when most electoral battles have already been fought---instead, we need to involve ourselves earlier. And this means participating actively in our respective party's internal operations, from precinct caucuses to conventions to primary elections, in order to get liberty-lovin' candidates (rather than warfare-welfare statist ones) nominated. These partisan processes vary from state to state, but Information Age technology like the Internet has rendered it easier than ever for each of us to discover how they function in our respective states. Here's a website called The Green Papers that compiles a wealth of basic raw information about this subject, although not in a manner that's very friendly to novices---but you can easily search for additional websites (or webpages) that are customized for your respective level of expertise.

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Happy Election Day to my fellow Americans! Here's one of my sixteen social-media posts today to acknowledge this day's passage. America's Election Day isn't an official annual American holiday (except in several individual states) but it nevertheless recurs every November's first Monday's subsequent Tuesday.

On this day, America's political system at every level (federal and state and local) enables adult American citizens to elect their respective public officers, usually directly but sometimes indirectly, normally according to whichever candidate gets more votes than any other. Voters' ballot options are usually determined by political parties, which each nominate one (if any) candidate for each office, and these nominees are normally determined during the year beforehand through various systems that usually involve precinct caucuses and political conventions and primary elections. Once such nominees have been elected, they are normally inaugurated after the following year begins, and U.S. Presidential inaugurations normally receive great public attention. Upon inauguration, all American public officers are required by the U.S. Constitution to swear a solemn oath (or affirmation) to uphold that charter, but many don't keep this oath very well anymore.

American public officers serve for terms of lengths that are determined by the respective written charters of the governments in which they will serve. According to the U.S. Constitution, for example, U.S. Presidents serve four-year terms, U.S. Senators serve six-year terms, and U.S. Representatives serve two-year terms; these federal officers are elected (or reelected) only in appropriate even years. In either even years or odd years or both, we Americans (depending upon where we officially reside) also choose our respective state officers, county (or parish) officers, city officers, and any other public officers.

American voters are less likely to participate in odd-year elections, more likely to participate in even-year elections, and most likely to participate in even-year elections that choose U.S. Presidents, which have attracted over 50% voter turnout for over a century. Electoral participation in these United States was once restricted to white male landowners, but political activism has gradually extended this franchise to all adult U.S. citizens through various U.S. Constitutional amendments.

As for myself, I intend to spend this Election Day teaching proper political principles (as best as I presently understand them), rallying people to vote (wisely), and encouraging my fellow liberty-lovin' Americans to engage in precinct-level activism so that we can gradually retake our political system from the statists who have long dominated it. What are your thoughts about America's Election Day? If you are an adult U.S. citizen, then will you vote today? Why or why not?

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Happy Election Day to my fellow Americans! Here's one of my sixteen social-media posts today to acknowledge this day's passage. Election Day is arguably a good day to reconsider our standards for evaluating candidates.

As best as I presently understand things, tyranny is "legalized" crime, crimes are those sins that violate others' innate rights, and sins are evil acts. So, let's please not uphold evil! Including on Election Day. I worry that we Americans both nominate and elect too many smooth-talking dishonest corrupt cunning warfare-welfare statists, who both unjustly take people's lives (via the warfare state's unjust warfare and/or extrajudicial executions) and unjustly take people's property (via the welfare state's coercive redistribution of everyone's wealth). If these public officers performed such unjust acts as private citizens, then we'd recognize them as both murders and robbers, despite their excuses; but, because they perpetrate these same acts "legally" under various false guises like "security" or "compassion," we sometimes foolishly laud their crimes rather than deride them.

Let's please repent of this behavior and, as such, reject Caesars for Catos. We Americans need to both nominate and elect more plainspoken honest virtuous wise statesman who will help us to defend our innate (God-given) rights, rather than trample upon those rights with impunity. Despots should be denied political power unless/until they repent, and I believe that we would do well to pray for their spiritual welfare.

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Happy Election Day to my fellow Americans! Here's one of my sixteen social-media posts today to acknowledge this day's passage. Election Day is arguably a good day to reconsider our standards for evaluating candidates.

As for myself, I strive to ignore labels (including partisan affiliations) and to uphold candidates ONLY to whatever extent they demonstrate both personal virtue and political wisdom. As for the latter, in honor of Election Day, here's my Facebook note that presents a treasury of some of my favorite political quotations, some popular and some obscure, many about the right principles (rightful liberty) and few about the wrong principles (tyranny/slavery), all of which help to illustrate human society's timeless conflict between "bottom-upward" government that contractually helps us to expertly defend our innate God-given rights, on one figurative hand, and "top-downward" government that arbitrarily seeks to arrogantly run our entire society, on the other figurative hand.

Which timeless political pole do you support? Or do you prefer something in the "mushy" middle? As for myself, I believe that people aren't meant to live in figurative cages (even gilded ones), but ought to be free. I love America's virtuous wise founders for drawing upon their timeless political wisdom to establish these United States as a free Constitutional compound republic, which has since enjoyed an exemplary heritage of rightful liberty under Constitutional law. Long live the republic!

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