By Elliott Brack
Editor and Publisher, GwinnettForum
DEC. 18, 2020 | Want to hear something really scary, perhaps more terrifying than Halloween activities or horror movies?
Just follow these steps of what could happen.
- For the Georgia U.S. Senate runoff races on January 5, there’s probably going to be strong support for both Democratic and Republican candidates. The races could be very close.
- Remember that in the General Election race, a total of 115,639 Libertarian voters cast ballots for Shane Hazel in the Perdue-Ossoff race.
- So, should these Libertarians return to the polls, and cast a write-in vote for someone other than the main candidates…..neither the two Republicans nor the two Democrats might get a majority of the votes again.
- So, we could have……yep, another runoff!
Horror of horrors!
That would mean another six weeks of television dominated by far-out political slinging of mud. That might cause some viewers to yell and scream: “I can’t stand it any longer,” with shoes, ashtrays, baseballs and anything handy slung at the TV screen.
Meanwhile, the television managers have to resort to using wheelbarrows to haul political advertising dollars to the bank…..scary, isn’t it?
Well, worry not. This nightmare can’t happen. You see, Georgia laws in election runoffs do not allow any write-in votes. Only in the General Election are people able to write in names of others for offices. So, while the election for senators could theoretically end in a tie….it cannot be influenced by write-ins! Someone must win in a runoff election.
Whew! That’s a relief! Maybe television advertising can return to the more tasteful attorney commercials, medical remedies, and offering of other items we don’t need. We won’t have to ask the Libertarians to stay home.
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Wearing masks these days is getting to be more standard for most of us. If it will keep the COVID away, nothing wrong with that.
Yet it amazes me how wearing masks completely takes away your personality.
- People cannot easily recognize the real you. (So we really see why bank robbers wear masks. They work!)
- Masks hurt understanding. After all, facial expressions help move a conversation.
- Masks also take away people’s personality. You don’t know whether the other person is smiling, sneering or snarling at you. Nor you him. We never previously realized how much facial expressions help in talking to one another.
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Check-out lines in grocery stores can be frustrating. You never know which line will move faster. Seems even if you get in the shortest line, someone ahead of you will have picked up something that has a bad barcode on it, or the cashier has to go find out the price. You may stay in line far longer than what you thought it would be in the other lines. Oh, well.
We’ve noted a similar situation when trying to turn left at a road intersection. When you’re been waiting in line for a while, why is it that the traffic going straight gets to move before you do? Yep, you’ll have to wait while the straight traffic moves on before the left turn lane light comes on.
Or, similarly, if you’re attempting to drive straight through the roadway, that’s the time the left turn lane both ways will go first….as you wait this time to go straight.
Why is it? What really makes it bad is a long trip through the county on heavily-trafficked roads, stopping at several lights, and this happens over and over. We bet it happens to you, too. Why is it?
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