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I am going to take a wild guess here and postulate that she is a Democrat.

From the article: "In January, the GOP assumed control of the Buckingham County Electoral Board that oversees her office ..."

That means, of course, that the Democrats controlled the Electoral Board before January and is the Board that hired her. In Virginia, by statute, each county's electoral board has three members. Also by statute, the party that holds the governor's office gets two seats on the board and the other party gets one. Since VA's Governor Youngkin is Republican, Republicans get two seats on on the Board and can do what they want with staff. Elections have consequences, sweetie.

That means, of course, that the Democrats controlled the Electoral Board before January and is the Board that hired her.

This is Bob Good’s district and he crushed the Dem in 2022.

Trump won this county by 13% in 2020.

I wonder what the complaints about the elections were.

This is where we have failed our country. And I say we, including myself here. We let the Left pack the local, state, and federal bureaucracies, and I believe they have taken full malignant advantage of that.

Sadly, much the same as what we have done with Education. But that may be turning around there. But the Left has had hacks running election business for governments at all levels for decades now. (I believe Conservatives have generally avoided government isn't because we hate it, but ideologically, we are less inclined to poke our noses into other people's business. We as Conservatives can and do poke our noses where it might be unwelcome, but it is in a general framework of morality, law, and rights.

Or at least used to be.

The Left, on the other hand seems to be inclined to tell people what they have to do, simply to establish that they can force people to do whatever they order them to do.

I would not surprised if they passed some kind of regulation to force people at regular intervals during the day to stand up, bounce around in circle while hopping on one leg, rubbing their stomach and patting the top of their heads while chanting "Wooo haaaa" repeatedly for one minute.

For your health, of course.

But I harbor this vision of the Leftists who have their hands on the levers of power:

LEFTIST FLUNKY AIDE: Uh, sir...we have the polls back on the legislation passed last week...

LEFTIST POLITICIAN: Oh. Okay. Ah, which legislation was that?

LEFTIST FLUNKY AIDE: The, uh, part of the effort to improve the fitness and mental health of people by getting them out of their chairs and moving around.

LEFTIST POLITICIAN: Really? Did it actually pass?

LEFTIST FLUNKY AIDE: Of course, sir. You were a cosponsor of the bill.

LEFTIST POLITICIAN: Oh, right. Ah, what did we order them to do?

LEFTIST FLUNKY AIDE: Here, sir, is the verbatim text of the bill: "Each day, between 8:00 AM and 8:00 PM local time, people will be required to stand up on the hour, bounce around in circle while hopping on one leg, rubbing their stomach and patting the top of their heads while chanting "Wooo haaaa" repeatedly for one minute. Failure to comply will result in resolutely pursued financial penalties."

LEFTIST POLITICIAN: Oh. Ah, what does the poll say?

LEFTIST FLUNKY AIDE: The, uh, response from the public has been uh, uniformly negative, and there are mentions of "civil disobedience". The...

LEFTIST POLITICIAN: Hm. Can't have that. Let's back off. I'll sponsor a bill on the floor requiring the roll back of these onerous government overreaches. Let's propose that they will only have to leap up an jump around at 12:00 Noon, and not on one foot, but two feet.

LEFTIST FLUNKY AIDE: Aaah. I see. Okay, I will start the process...

LEFTIST POLITICIAN: After you're done with writing a draft of that bill to roll it back, we'll write another one that will put the hopping on one leg back in. I really liked that, they looked absolutely hilarious doing it. But their faces!