My email to several leading Democrat supporters

[jmatthan]

including the John Kerry campaign, George Soros, BBV, Talk Show Hosts, etc.

Create your Own Paper Trail

I heard a very scary caller on the Mike Malloy show this morning who was a software expert and knew the business of voting on the touch-screen machines.

He predicted that Bush HAD ALREADY stolen the election.

There is one possible way to stop this theft if the Democratic Party can organise itself quickly.

On election day the Democratic Party should have poll workers at every precinct where there is an electronic voting machine with no paper trail. Democratic voters should be told to cast their back up paper ballot at specially provided boxes with ballot papers at a reasonable distance from the precinct with ballot papers which are signed and dropped into these boxes. Each voter should put his name and signature and date and time when putting his paper trail version into the ballot boxes.

Should the election results seem screwed up at any precinct, these boxes can be opened and counted - which will be the only way to check whether the election results have been tampered with.

Care must be taken to ONLY have people who voted on election day putting their ballots in these boxes so that ballot stuffing will not occur and this can be checked against the names of people who had voted on that particular date.

This would either ensure that the electronic voting machine operators are extremely careful before they try to screw up the results.

In short the Democrats should ensure their own certifiable paper trail!!

If someone feels that this is workable, please get this message out to the Democratic hierarchy as soon as possible.

Regards

Jacob Matthan
Oulu, Finland

[Dogmudgeon]

1. That won't work, either

The secondary "trail" is too "insecure". Electronic voting will be innocent until proven guilty.

However, if Team Bush does steal the election, there will be an incredible incentive for someone to come forward and expose the whole operation.

Stealing a presidential election isn't some small-time operation to hush up, like, say, 50 years of UFO visitations. :) Oh, no, this would be a form of treason of the greatest gravity, and would result in some or all of the following political disasters:

1. Members of Team Bush sentenced to long prison terms;
2. Bush and his family permanently disgraced;
3. The destruction of the Republican Party;
4. Meltdown of the US financial system as the Euro replaces the Dollar as the standard reserve currency;
5. Prime opportunity for terrorist actions or a coup d'êtat;
6. The possibility of imposition of martial law;
7. The possibility of political violence;
8. Enormous GNP declines and deficits that would take decades to recover from;
9. Possibility of coup d'êtat/martial law imposed by the military;
10. The possible, but unlikely, end of the United States of America as a unified republic via chaos or civil warfare.

I don't think that Bush and Co. are willing to risk that much damage. Such a scenario would also result in crippling or fatal losses for the American oil industry. If push comes to shove in the oil industry, Shrub will get mowed down like a thick-stemmed weed that had been neglected since April.

And remember, bullies are usually cowards.

No, I think any electoral theft will happen in more genteel circumstances, like the courts. And the pressure would be on the Electors in the Electoral College; no matter the outcome in such an event, the EC would probably be abolished fairly quickly after the election.

If Bush drags it out long enough, he can make Kerry look like an obstructionist and eventually turn public sentiment against him.

Then again, it could just as easily turn against Bush.

--bkl

[jmatthan]

2. Probably the only foreigners in 2000

It is likely that my wife and I were the only foreigners in 2000 who emailed Al Gore not to yield the election.

We could see "then" what we have seen happening over the last 4 years.

Being outside of the US and having watched the efforts of someone like Bev Harris and some wonderful activists in the US and also my own analysis about electronic voting machines, my contention is that the public has a way to monitor it and not depend on "the corrupt system".

If not the issue will resort to the situation you point out.

What I am advocating is getting the power back in the hands of the people, however naive it may seem. Take back your rights to elect the President of your country and the leader of the Free World.

Do not anoint a dictator of the Free World as you did last time. 100000 dead Iraqi civilians is what it has seen last time round. How many more the next time round?

Jacob Matthan
Oulu, Finland