Election Reform, Fraud and Related News -->> Thursday, Jan 10 **SPECIAL NH REPORT**

[nashville_brook]

TODAY's Election Reform news thread will focus specially on issues surround the New Hampshire Primary since this is the explosive election reform issue of the day.

I want to say one thing as I compile the news from the inter-tubes: Election integrity isn't about who won and who lost in this primary. It's about the fairness and transparency of our elections in general. I'm disappointed in DU'ers throwing rhetorical bombs at the good folks working ER issues. Maybe YOUR candidate "won" this time. Maybe you personally "don't feel it" this time around -- THAT'S NOT THE POINT.

The point is that our elections are STILL determined by PROPRIETARY, TRADE SECRET machines. Just read the words of the capitalists who now run our elections:

"I feel very confident in the fact that the process itself is better left in the private venue than it is in the public venue when I see the influence that each political party can put on people and make things happen in this country, whether right or wrong...Would you like politically connected people to both parties to be in charge of running the process of creating voting machines, counting ballots, and you know, would you like that? I don’t know."

Last night on Dan Abrams show Rachael Maddow said two things that made me wonder if we were separated at birth. The first was "I'm a civics geek" (I thought I was the only one). The second, "I'm a cryer -- I cry at buskers and at the national anthem." Folks, I've wept reading the Constitution. It's a beautiful document that puts the fragility of freedom in our supposedly capable hands. The Constitution aimed to protect us from TWO basic evils: Theocracy and Oligarchy.

When "private business" runs our elections, we have already lost.

So, to all those who are satisfied with the results of THIS primary -- THERE'S 48 TO GO, AND THE GENERAL ELECTION. This isn't about whose candidate wins which race. We're playing in a much bigger field. We were given this democracy with the understanding that it's our responsibility to protect it. Evidence indicates that are doing a shitty job, and that should make us all weep.

peace, nashville_brook.


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