A little bauble I found at ‘Blue Plumb’ in
Johnson City, Tennessee
June 2016
About the Size of a Silver Dollar
🇺🇸 There are currently 538 electors, and an absolute majority of electoral votes—270 or more—is required for it to elect the president and vice president. The electors meet and vote in December and the president is inaugurated in January.
The current Electoral College system allows a candidate to win the Presidency while losing the popular vote, an outcome seen as counter to the one person, one vote principle of democracy.
I have voted in 12 🇺🇸 presidential elections. I un-registered for the last two. ❗️
𝕀𝕥 𝕀𝕤 ℝ𝕚𝕘𝕘𝕖𝕕 👎
One person, one vote 𝕎𝕋𝔽 ❓
The electors of each state meet in their respective state capital on the first Monday after the second Wednesday of December to cast their votes❗️
In 1986, while living in Park City, Utah, my father gave me 100 yards of assorted Rip-Stop Sail Cloth. I had just finished refurbishing a 1950’s Singer, acquired while ‘dumpster diving’, so I became a Kite Maker. (If Nature gives ya lemons ya make lemon-aide right❕ Homemade Eight foot Box Delta.
Compound Box Kite ~Eight foot nose to tail with 4 ft wing spans. I call it my ‘Dragon Kite’