lightbulb clicked on in me’thudding spinning reeling achin’ American edd an hour after reading the article this morning, driving in the out-of-the-ordinary heavy snow coming down from a pre Halloween snowstormy sky we were kinda-sorta enjoying ~~ well, actually, I’d be glad not to feel the rearend of my pickup fishtail or hear the furnace kicking on already…but that’s the Midwest we migrated back to.  …..I think there is a way to truly count the vote come the 4^th.  Dig this, if you will:  In this age of satellite technology, at midnight on the morning of the 4^th, everyone who wishes to cast a vote for McC would step outside and light a lighter or a match ~~ just one single flickering light source.  Let satellites transmit the true vote from space, wholly protected by Smorley’s pals.  Then at 12:30 AM, all those wishing to vote for Obama, step outside and light’er up; one Zippo, one Bic, one blue-tip match or frank flickering flamed candle per voter.  I think…, cheaters and all, we would still see the truth in a glistering bright illumination of light, without a shadow of a doubt, come 12:30 AM of the 4th.  I got a good feeling the proof contrast would be like dusk to day.  Also compared to the cost of operating the present downward spiral of our ambiguously tweaked automated (anti-)voting machines, making sure every individual has a single light-emitting-device would be far cheaper and more efficient. ~~  AND far more definitive.   The only fear I have with this method … is the downside potential for cheaters to completely burn the entire country to the ground.  But that’s why we employ the world’s greatest firepersons.

So don’t get out the vote, light up the vote!    …Then auction the lithographs & sell the photos @ … The First Annual Inaugural Ball & People’s Music Fest, come January . .

[consideration has been given to the myriad of reasons why it wouldn’t work, but from a cartoon standpoint it’s virtually flawless. If only we were as cartoon as we are cartoony.]