An exercise to test personal integrity and values.

I know how paranoid all of you get if you think some business has "over-charged" you for something. And think about those times when you had a charge show up on your bank account that was a duplicate charge, or just a bogus charge from out of nowhere. You freeeeak out. Don't say it ain't so. Lol. You know you do. You would call the manager at your bank and raise holy hell if an Amazon seller charged you fifty cents more than they were supposed to. And you would say to your spouse "just think about how many OTHER times they have probably done this and nobody noticed!" And you would be right. Most of the time you never even look. But when you do, and you realize that something isn't right, oh boy, you become a weekend auditor.

Or, take the example of the utility company that sends you the bill for electricity, gas, and water. Be honest, you don't "AUDIT" your electric bill. At least not in any formal sense. You rock along expecting the bill to be higher in August because the kids run the AC on 62 all day long. You have a general idea of what the bills run, and you might inspect them when they are a little over or under, but for the most part, as long as things fall within a reasonable range of what you are used to, you aren't going to pore over it every month.

But, that ONE time you do, and you find a charge that obviously wrong, good Lord, batten down the hatches at city hall because the government is screwing you. And you are thinking of all the times they could have been doing it before , but you never noticed. Yep. Pull those old bills outta the file cabinet, honey!

Ok, so let's say you pull those old bills and you check your water meter and electric meter readings from the past 6 months, and realize..."ooops, they UNDER-charged me for two of those bills." The phone you had in your hand at the ready to call city hall, all of a sudden gets calmly laid back down on the table. Maybe you won't call them and raise the devil's lair "this time."

Pause here, and let me state that I am not saying that you are an unusually bad person. Nope. Just normal. Justice matters to you PRIMARILY when you believe YOU, or someone you love, is on the bad end of the stick. Proof? You didn't drive down to city hall and rail loudly about all the money you still owe them because their software under-charged you. Why? Because that's "their" problem, not yours. Oh, and you didn't demand that they immediately audit the utility bills of that millionaire down the street to make sure he hasn't been over-charged. Why? Because he is not your concern.

Now, how does this relate to the video posted here? Well, let me start by stating to my friends on the Right: your personal integrity suffers when you demand audits of voter rolls based on easily-identifiable disparities in the "voting bills" on the one hand, but do not likewise demand audits of sentencing disparity based on income/status of convicted criminals.

Friends on the Left, don't imagine yourselves to be above the fray here. You cannot expect to maintain a high degree of integrity if on the one hand you demand, for years, that a free, fair and trust-able, election is sacred and worth protecting at any cost, but on the other hand, when its "their problem" you don't demand audits in order to unify the public's belief in the voting system.

Our election boards have been sold software systems that are hackable by a 5th grader. Not only that, they are designed to be able to tabulate in ways that you wouldn't put up with from your gas station down the street. "Why is my receipt showing $50 when I only got 20 gallons of gas at $2/gallon?" Store "Oh, well, its set to Fractional counting and running a Weighted average based on the speed of the fuel coming through the hose, but it all works out in the end." You would never in a million years walk out of that store without your $10 back. And if they told you they deleted the records of the actual transactions, you'd call the cops. Yes you would. Don't play all upright.

You wouldn't put up with it from your utility company. Or your bank. Or Amazon.

Yet here we are, and these voting software systems have been designed TO BE tamperable. Anyone with access could get into the software at the table-level (like getting into your bank statement software and having the ability to add, delete, and change the dollar amounts of transactions). Imagine that. The election board in the video was being alerted to this fact by a city employee (God bless that lady) several years ago. The lack of outrage is stunning to me.

We are spiritually flawed. Our love for justice is twisted into, and jumbled up with love for self, and the accompanying disregard for those whom we don't like or perceive as our enemies. Those of us who follow Jesus Christ have accepted a higher level of responsibility when it comes to personal integrity. We must love Justice, not because it benefits us, but because it emanates from God.

"Blessed is the man who delights in the law of the Lord." - Psalm 1.