Voting in America - Is It DOA?

[Padme Amidala]

Action is needed ASAP so our votes will count in the primary. Please read this article and take action.

http://debateusa.com/featured/hull_richter.htmVoting in America - Is It DOA?
By Natasha H. (age 12).

"Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes, decide everything" - Joseph Stalin.

On December 12, 2000, when the U.S. Supreme Court decided the outcome of the election did not matter and effectively appointed George W. Bush President, Americans saw the death of the right to vote in America. When the recount results showed Gore won Florida and the Presidency six out of six ways of counting all the votes, the news media buried the outcome of the count at the end of articles or omitted it entirely from their stories and the public didn't care enough to take their county back. The fact that an impostor who had stolen the White House failed to stop the events of 9/11 didn't matter. If Americans wanted to restore Democracy and true security, they would have to act. They would have to stand up like responsible citizens and do something other than going about their daily routines in the usual manner.

In 2002, when voters in Florida and Texas watched voting computers change their votes from Democrat to Republicans before their eyes, no one cared - not even the DNC. The DNC had had advance warning about the problem. Yet, did the DNC demand a voter-verifiable paper trail for the 2002 election? Did it demand that all voting computers without one be shutdown? If the answer to these questions had not been "no," Americans might have seen a different outcome in terms of who controlled Congress and in the state races, such as in Georgia (where the computers lost votes that had already been counted for the Democratic governor and changed the outcome of the governor's race overnight) and Texas (where the Republican gained control of both houses for the first time since Reconstruction). In some races, the computers gave the Republicans a vote count of 18,181 - which translates to A-HA-HA. Yet the DNC and the voters weren't smart enough to figure out that the joke was on them.

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[DuctapeFatwa]

1. It's a question of faith

Many people believe that their vote makes a difference, and derive a great deal of comfort from the voting process.

[Constitution]

6. We need to take action.

Faith may be alright for some people but if we don't get Holt's/Graham's bill passed we will all be disenfranchised.

[FloridaPat]

2. Can anyone tell me what the DNC has done in the last 20

years to fight the republicans? I swear, often times I thought they were just there so that "We the People" actually thought we had a two party system. Who's side is the DNC on?

[Constitution]

5. They need to fight. The Republicans consider this a war.

The DNC mostly seems to throw flowers at the Republicans and beg for rights.

[newyawker99]

3. Hi Padme Amidala!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Constitution]

4. Good job Natasha

I'll call my senator and congressman tomorrow.