Given that you didn’t know that the States set the rules for voting, I wasn’t writing for your benefit; I just assumed — correctly it turns out — that you’re ineducable. But other people might be interested in the thread. Especially if they think your original “gauntlet” question makes sense, which it did not.
Pomposity is always fun to marvel at from a distance. In person it is a most unimpressive quality. It is always accompanied by an inflated sense of self-worth that not even the possessor believes in.
They are usually, and sadly, frightened little boys. The movie, The Ref, had some of the most accurate and funny lines on the topic.