Maricopa County. Sorta Has A Ring To It.

       Have ya ever heard of Maricopa County? Sure you have. How about Sheriff Joe Arpaio? Well, that's his county. Anyway Maricopa County is in the news again. This time it has to do with uncounted provisional votes. Like people who registered to receive mail-in voting forms and never got them, to newly registered voters who for one reason or another didn't get their vote counted. So what's the big deal? Well there are 631,274 uncounted provisional votes in Maricopa County. Now doesn't that seem like a lot of votes that are supposed to be of questionable repute.
       Well you may think that's not all that big a number for a county with a major city in it, but consider the total population was 3,817,117 in 2010. But an even more important number is 1.5 million registered voters in 2010. So if you've got 1,500,000 people registered to vote and 630,000 provisional votes, wouldn't you begin to think that something fishy is going on? Hey, Maricopa County isn't even considered a fishing mecca.
       I hate to pick on Sheriff Joe, and I realize that he's not supposed to have anything to do with voting except to campaign and vote himself. But he's in a close fight to retain his job this year. You don't suppose??? Naw, I don't think that at all.
       But there are those 630,000 votes just sitting there, uncounted. And it has been over three days since the election. Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett expressed concern and there are growing calls for the Justice Deparetment to investigate. Because those votes are still just sitting there.
       Gosh, if Sheriff Joe gets beat, who's gonna tear down his tent city jail? What will all those county Sheriff deputies do if the new Sheriff decides not to stop anybody who might look like an illegal alien? If that happens, there'll be little green people running all around Maricopa County.