Reply #18: Throw Diebold/ES&S election theft machines into 'Boston Harbor' NOW! [View All]

[Peace Patriot]

That's the problem. It gives the War Party the final edge they need to thwart the will of 70+% of the American people.

The "Help America Vote for Bush's War Act" (electronic voting) was passed at the same times as the Iraq War Resolution (Oct. 2002), and is closely related to it. They knew that 56% of the American people who opposed the Iraq War from the beginning (Feb. '03) would only grow. And they were right. It's now over 70%. The American people have shown amazing resistance to relentless, 24/7 warmongering, all channels, all the time. The war is a war crime of the first magnitude--completely unjustified slaughter and violent occupation. Americans are overwhelmingly peace-minded and just. They can only be kept in control by stealing elections. Many methods are used for this, but voting machines run on "TRADE SECRET,' PROPRIETARY programming code, owned and controlled by rightwing Bushite corporations, make it nearly impossible for the system to be moved. They've got war locked in--decades of war, bleeding us dry, until we are like the destitute, slave labor millions, ravaged by imperial war, in Russia under the Tsar in 1917.

The "trade secret" code is a priority #1 problem that can be probably best be solved at the state/local level, where ordinary people still have some influence. Maybe start with demanding handcounts of the Absentee Ballot votes and posting of the results BEFORE any electronics are involved. AB voters are a big constituency for transparent vote counting. Get rid of touchscreens (no paper trail voting). Demand AT LEAST a 10% handcount check for optiscans. Remember that all votes can be fiddled in the central electronic tabulators--and the only way to know for sure is public handcount and posting the results BEFORE (or possibly while) those ballots are entered into the system.

Long road ahead of us. This is the first essential step back toward democracy.

Be of good heart! Do not be discouraged! Many, many people have struggled under fascist rule before us, and there are many riveting stories of endurance, persistence and ultimate triumph. South Africa is a good example. Our civil rights movement another. And there are many CURRENT peaceful and democratic triumphs over fascist rule in South America today (Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Uruguay, Nicaragua), after decades and centuries of suffering.

We are not alone.

You are not alone.

Don't let the war profiteering corporate news monopolies convince you otherwise.