Perpetuating a lie

Kristina Cook writes about the lie promulgated by Donald Trump about people not getting to vote in Colorado:

Those of you perpetuating this lie that you did not get to vote at caucus do realize that you are advocating for mandatory voting, right? Because your same logic says that those who receive a ballot in the mail and don't take the effort to turn it in also did not get to vote.

You did have the opportunity to vote - I myself cast 4 votes during the caucus process: at my precinct, my house district at county, my CD and at state. Every registered Republican has the right to participate - choosing not to do so because it isn't convenient does not mean you didn't get to vote. You had an opportunity to vote, and chose not to.

For most of the history of our country, people had to travel to vote on polling day, some of them traveling many miles to do so. And they did, because it was important to them to be involved in the process. It's only in this age of mail in balloting, this effort to facilitate drive-by politics, that anyone could state with a straight face that they were denied the right to vote by having to inconvenience themselves for one night.