The "Voter I.D. Bill" overturn was delayed in action by DOJ which could have changed results of 2014 election that Senator Kay Hagan (Dem) lost re-election. It(s) suit was filed in ample time but not given priority. (my emphasis)
Instead the DOJ is going after international soccer corruption, and investigating the leading leftist in the Venezuela National Assembly (accusing him of drug trafficking). But they don't have time for vote suppression here.**
Interesting, huh?
...people lost interest when Obama was overwhelmingly elected because they felt the voting system must be working just fine. (my emphasis)
Yup--though I think the demise of the election integrity movement happened a bit earlier, circa 2006, when the Dems were permitted to temporarily take over Congress. In my view, that was the result of an internal war between the CIA and Cheney-Rumsfeld. Rumsfeld was forced out; Cheney was curtailed (re: nuking Iran) for the remainder of the Bush Junta. The Fitzgerald prosecution of Cheney for outing the CIA's WMD counter-proliferation project was made to go away. And the e-voting system--which was started by the far rightwing Urosevich brothers (ES&S/Diebold) and their funders such as 'christian' nutball billionaire Howard Ahmanson--was appropriated by whoever is in charge now (some deep CIA/MIC cabal) and cemented into place, probably beyond our reach. And what we're getting now is some compromises among these allies, with the far right steadily gaining ground as a means of protecting the MIC from popular outrage and reform.
Obama was, indeed, elected--and by a greater margin than we know--but he was never the icon of change and reform that the voters so longed for. For one thing, he compromised going in, agreeing not to prosecute, or even investigate, Cheney-Rumsfeld war crimes. ("We need to look forward not backward," um, on the crimes of the rich and powerful.) He wasn't elected overwhelmingly (on the surface). His margin was curtailed, as a hobble on any reformist tendencies that he may have had. And, further--and crucially--he was
permitted to be elected, as was the briefly Dem-controlled '06 Congress, and THAT is the problem. The people of this country have lost control of our vote counting. It has been privatized and is now done with 'TRADE SECRET' code with virtually no auditing of the results. But it's pretty obvious that
somebody controls it, and I think my guess is a pretty good one.
With this power, of putting outright nutballs into office, the controlling cabal ensures that OTHER forms of voter suppression will occur, and that, whatever may happen to the e-rigging system, the true majority in the country will not gain control of its government any time soon. Plenty of time to put many other controls into place, including many voter suppression laws, billionaire control of election information, militarized police, NSA monitoring of all citizens, Patriot Act invasiveness, mass incarceration of the poor (with loss of voting rights) by means of the "war on drugs," and so forth. So, if our people get smart and decide to hold a REAL 'Boston Tea Party' and throw these election theft machines into 'Boston Harbor' (so to speak), the majority will still have great difficulty getting real reformers into office.
But the real "Boston Tea Party" is not likely to happen now. You are right, in essence, that Obama being permitted to be elected smashed the election integrity movement. It has been a great shock to me--or was back in 2004, when I first found out--that the leaders of my party (I am a lifelong Democrat) almost all voted in favor of e-voting with no controls whatsoever on the private entities who 'count' our votes, and Democratic as well as Puke election officials and state legislators across the land got suckered or bribed into installing these election theft systems.
I think we need to look at this from the other end of the telescope. We should get beyond 'this can't be possible' to, 'how WAS it possible?' Because it DID occur (and is occurring)--our Dem leaders totally selling us out on the most fundamental requirement of democracy: vote counting IN THE PUBLIC VENUE. Why would Dems do this?
They DID it. WHY?
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**(Ironically, Venezuela has the best election system in the world--the most honest and aboveboard--according to Jimmy Carter--and according to my own research into the details. While the horrors of our election system go untouched, the DOJ and the CIA are trying to bring down
elected leftists in other countries.)
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