Fixing Our Broken Elections

Here are a few politically incorrect suggestions.

J. Kevin Jenkins | November 1, 2026

Arthur: I order you to be quiet!

Dennis the Peasant: Order? Who does he think he is?

Arthur: I’m your King!

Dennis the Peasant: Well, I didn’t vote for you!

—Constitutional Peasants scene, Monty Python and the Holy Grail

The United States of America represents a profound departure from historical forms of government and the theories that supported them.  One of the fundamental pieces of evidence of this departure is the notion that government exists to serve its citizens, and that it does so only in the areas which citizens have, through their elected representative, asked it to serve.  Otherwise, government is to leave us alone to handle our own affairs as we see fit, enjoying or suffering the consequences as we earn them.  In other words, government in America operates only with the consent of the governed.  This concept necessarily implies who is master and who is servant.

Given the obvious violations of the powers enumerated in Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution, our federal government no longer considers itself bound by the will of the people.  Untrustworthy elections manipulated by and for the benefit of sleazy power merchants are an important facilitator of this violation of trust.  If, as I believe, our representatives are not chosen as the law prescribes, they are no longer our legitimate representatives.  Rather, they are a cabal of self-satisfied, money-grubbing, power-hungry thugs.  So how to restore just elections, and with them start the return to consent of the governed?

First, the process of voting must be radically altered.  Odd as it may sound to some, voting should be made less convenient, because as voting grows easier (and therefore less supervised), the........

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