Lesson #2:

[fshrink]

If elections are what they sure seem to be in this country, I will not vote EVER. Better, I will now campaign for not voting. Elephants do not reproduce in captivity and citizens may publicly refuse to vote when their vote is utilized to validate a parody of democracy. I don't care if the idiot, or his brother or his cousin or best friend stays in power. The blackmail and the show will end there.

[genieroze]

I'm not voting ever again unless they do something about these machines.

[jamboi]

3. "they" is us and we have to get out in the streets and protest or it won't

change.

[Pepper32]

16. Jamboi, for once we agree! n/t

[Rockerdem]

5. Swamp the machines then.

Make them start smoking. Then people will begin to understand the problem.

[fshrink]

13. Makes it easier to rig and validates the fraud by numbers.

I suggest just the opposite. Heard about boycott, strike, that sort of things?

[genieroze]

19. I would like to

strike them with a sledge hammer.

[IAMREALITY]

1. So Give The Fuck Up

It Matters Not.

We Will Continue the fight without you, while still fighting for you, dear fallen soldier.

[fshrink]

7. Oohh. It matters!

Once the rate of participation falls below 40%, it matters. There's more than one way to oppose, and, apparently, the Diebold way is not the best.

[jamboi]

2. Suicide may be fine for you, but I'm fighting back. n/t

[Razorback_Democrat]

4. Really! Don't give up! That's what they want you to do!

give up
stay home
drink the kool aid

stop caring



Don't do it!!


Fight Fight Fight!!!!!!

[RC]

6. One of "them" is

among us.

[Vanje]

8. Asian Elephants actually ......

.....have reproduced repeatedly at the zoo in Portland,OR , since about 1960 when Rosie begat Packy. Then Belle begat MeToo. There were others born in regular succession after those first famous births.

[fshrink]

11. Looks like it works in politics too...

[LiberalAndProud]

9. We have 50 states and the District of Columbia.

We need to work to pass 51 seperate legislations to protect the election process.

Congressman Conyers is doing what he can at the Federal level, but this is a state issue and we're going to have to take it on one state at a time.

[fshrink]

10. Conyers is the only one that I respect at this point.

As per lesson #1, he has my vote.

[helderheid]

12. I won't vote unless we change the system

and get rid of the machines.

[noamnety]

14. I refuse to let them disenfranchise me

If I stay home next election, they definitely won. If we all do that, they don't even need to cheat.

The more we vote, the more they have to cheat, the more chances we have to nail them for it.

[fshrink]

15. Actually, I think that larger numbers make fraud easier.

As to winning, I don't see how they could win more than this time.

[Fly by night]

17. How about a little poetry "lesson" for our fatalistic friend

THIS ELECTION AIN'T OVER.
THE VOTE COUNTING'S JUST STARTED.
OUR SIDE'S REAL PISSED
'CAUSE THEIR SIDE JUST FARTED.
SO LET'S ALL PULL TOGETHER
AND EXPOSE THIS COUP.
WE'LL HANG THEIR ELEPHANT
BEFORE THIS ASS IS THROUGH.

Give up and stop voting. How absurd is that? When did pouting ever get you anywhere with the dastardly, the distracted and the disinterested? As for this yellow dog, I only have two speeds. And neither one is reverse.

Peace, out.

[Pepper32]

18. What next time? Are you kidding? Democracy is dying fast n/t

[ewulf]

20. I hate nonvoters, I've done everything I could to slap sense into people

who say thing like "my vote doesn't count." That said, if we don't get this shit fixed, if we don't get things to the point where we could expect that even votes that might give a Dem a majority will be counted, even if the election is close, then maybe your right.

But just quietly not voting won't do anything. You might as well vote and and maybe it will count for something, at least in local elections or primaries (maybe). If your not going to vote, it should be part of an organized, visible protest, in the mold of election strikes in other countries were the opposition has no faith that elections will be fair.

[fshrink]

21. Who said quietly!!!

Hell no! It just seems to me that we're about to reach a point where not spreading our own cheeks could be considered. Campaigning against voting Diebold seems to me kinda different than taking double dose of Xanax on election day. No?