If I were voting right now, my top three editor's banes (in no particular order) would be "there are" constructions when a simple subject/verb would work; "the reason is because" (arrgggh!); and pronoun disagreement. The last is endemic---our attention spans have gotten so short that we can't remember from the start of a sentence to the end whether the subject was singular or plural. Or (sometimes) it's laziness or PC, meaning fear of offending by using "he" or "she." Some validity to that fear, but a deft writer can alm0st always get around it.
Speaking of voting, my sister just sent me a joke, on the familiar theme of St. Peter telling the new arrival (a politician in this case) that he has to try out both Heaven and Hell before making a choice. Of course all his friends are in Hell and having a great time, so he decides to go there for eternity--only to find that the scene has changed to an interminable landscape of woe. Satan explains: "When you were here before, we were campaigning. Now you've voted."
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