Reply #125: You are exactly on the right track with your analysis of the situation. [View All]

[ladjf]

The best odds we have for regaining control of Democracy is to re-establish legitimate voting processes. The Coup d'etat of 2000 and 2004 were successful in that they were able to control just enough votes in Florida (2000) and Ohio (2004) to claim the elections. The voting problem is not uniform ally terrible all over the country, only in the swing states that are controlled by Republican Governors.

The coup worked because the had a marginal but adequate ability to change the votes in their favor. The Coup isn't final until that have irrevocable control of the voting process, a condition that I do not believe has happened as yet. Our last and maybe even only chance is to somehow re-legitimize the voting. Don't worry about Americans, there are well enough sane and informed Americans to kick the thugs out, given an honest voting process.

That's what has to happen. How we are going to do that, I'm not so sure. Personally, I've been in computer science for twenty years. From my vantage point, I can say with authority, we MUST NOT TRUST COMPUTERS TO ACCEPT AND/OR COUNT THE VOTES. MUST NOT!. Computer code is transient, powerful and totally manipulatable. Why do you think they call it "code" or a "program"? Because it instructs the machine to carry out the programmers order EXPLICITLY. Code can be present that cheats on the voting tallys and then erases itself before anyone can discover it's presence. The votes accepted and counted by hand. What does it matter that it might take a couple of weeks to count them? That is a small price to pay for the confidence that votes cast are the votes counted correctly.

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