Fundamentally, what's happening with the widespread, federally funded enforcement of computerized touch screen and optical scan voting systems? Nancy Tobi reviews the legislative past and present and correctly says
we’ve yet to wrap our heads around the full implications of the paradigm shift that has occurred in American elections due to replacing bipartisan teams of humans who "listen" to voter intent on each ballot with computers (both optical scans and touchscreens) that require voters to COMPLY with so-called "objective" rules of balloting. One clearcut example though is based on the unlimited power that those who actually possess computers have to manipulate those computers, as against which no “security” procedures work. True computer "security" in elections is as hopeless as trying to "secure" a computer system
against the admin himself or herself – and the government is the admin in all computerized elections: To quote Tobi, another conclusion that can be drawn from the fact that (literally) no human being ever listens to a voter's ballot anymore since the voters merely have to comply, combined with the total control insiders have with computerized elections and the enforced naivete we are all expected to have about the secret vote counting that goes on:
Congress and the White House - in quiet collusion with private interests - seek to turn our time honored Constitutional design for voting- a simple, straightforward mechanism that allows our citizenry to control our government - on its head.
They seek to transform it into a mechanism by which the government controls the citizenry.
At the point of voting, citizens are SOVEREIGNS (acting as rulers). It is absurd for government servants to hide information from their citizen masters, yet they do. The government servants now purport to make the sovereign citizens COMPLY with their rules, the government doesn't allow citizens to even see the final forms of their electronic ballots (whether touch screen OR optical scan). The list of outrages to democracy goes on.
Instead, the political call must be that
citizens CONTROL elections. This is totally necessary because this is the only way citizens and We the People can guarantee their inalienable right to kick any bums out of office of their choice. (The Decl. of Indep. calls is the inalienable right to "alter or abolish" the government.)
If anyone in the government complains about the goal of guaranteeing citizen control of elections, they need only recall that the only purpose governments are instituted in the first place is to secure and guarantee our rights. ESPECIALLY our right to FIRE them! This is no subject to pussyfoot around with.
This is especially important when incumbents are criminal cheating bums who know something about computers or have enough money to hire someone who does, because these incumbents may well be fond of power and inclined to cheat on computers to keep it, especially when all the evidence of any cheating is subject to never coming to light.
So far, some courts buy into the applicability of commercial trade secrecy doctrine to public elections (as some have, but no binding precedents so far to date). And ominously, Holt's HR 811 legislation would be require by law trade secret vote counting and require nondisclosure agreements for any who do get any access to the methods and software used to count America's votes.
Read this excellent article by Tobi for a good overview of past and pending legislation. Full Content at
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_nancy_to_070722_voting_integrity_adv.htm
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