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Edited on Thu Aug-17-06 12:55 PM by Peace Patriot
"It is not my job to prove it was hacked. It is Their job to prove to me it was fair."
With NON-TRANSPARENT vote counting, the presumption MUST be fraud. What other reason is there for NON-TRANSPARENT vote counting?
Just ask citizens of Stalinist Russia! It's not who votes that counts--it's who counts the votes!
And here are the main two corporations who are counting all our votes using TRADE SECRET, PROPRIETARY programming code, with virtually no audit/recount controls:
DIEBOLD: Until recently, headed by Wally O'Dell, a Bush-Cheney campaign chair and major fundraiser (a Bush "Pioneer," right up there with Ken Lay), who promised in writing to "deliver Ohio's electoral votes to Bush-Cheney in 2004"; and
ES&S: A spinoff of Diebold (similar computer architecture), initially funded by rightwing billionaire Howard Ahmanson, who also gave one million dollars to the extremist 'christian' Chalcedon Foundation (which touts the death penalty for homosexuals, among other things). Diebold and ES&S have an incestuous relationship; they are run by two brothers, Bob and Todd Urosevich.
These are the people who "counted" 80% of the nation's votes in 2004, under a veil of corporate secrecy. They have hung onto this power with tooth and claw, and have sought to extend it over the last two years. Resistance is mounting, but not strong enough yet to throw these election theft machines into 'Boston Harbor" where they belong. It is the most black-holed story in the history of journalism.
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THE ABSENTEE BALLOT PROTEST
I think the only thing we can do for November is massive Absentee Ballot voting. The election reform movement is growing by leaps and bounds--with new groups formed all over the country, many lawsuits being filed, numerous books and articles and web sites devoted to the subject--but there is nothing on the horizon to stop Stolen Election III this fall. What to do? I think the answer is to FLOOD election officials with MOUNTAINS of paper ballots to deal with, create panic and crisis in the election theft industry, and FORCE reform NOW. Boycott the machines! Don't vote on them! Let them sit idle! Rebel! An AB vote is not "safe" either--and will NOT result in accurate vote counts, but if enough people vote AB (and many are--it's up to 50% in Los Angeles), it CAN bring this election theft system to its knees--push corrupt election officials out, or into negotiation with election reformers. What will they do if nobody will vote on their expensive, shiny, new election theft equipment? It will also result in better scrutiny on how AB votes, and all paper votes, are counted. It will be a massive citizen "vote no confidence" in things as they are. It's easy. Everybody can do it. Participating in a protest aimed at un-rigging the system is an incentive to vote. It will help turnout. We've got nothing to lose--and everything to gain, by pushing this protest and making it very big.
Extra precautions: Photocopy your Absentee Ballot; send it registered mail/return receipt requested, or deliver in person. Send a separate letter stating your objections to NON-TRANSPARENT vote counting. Transparent elections are very simple. People vote, and you count the votes in public view. Anything less is tyranny and fascism.
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