Reply #5: The Voter Confidence Resolution

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Key point #1: U.S federal elections are conducted under conditions that ensure inconclusive results.

Key point #2: Because inconclusive results, by definition, mean that the true outcome of an election cannot be known, there is NO BASIS FOR CONFIDENCE in the results reported from U.S. federal elections.

Key point #3: When elections are conducted under conditions that prevent conclusive outcomes, the Consent of the Governed is not being sought. Absent this self-evident source of legitimacy, such Consent is not to be assumed or taken for granted.

The Voter Confidence Resolution also includes a list of reforms likely to ensure conclusive outcomes and create a basis for confidence. This is the frame that is letting me build bridges even with the head of the local Republican party.

The Voter Confidence Resolution will be getting a public hearing on July 6 at the Arcata, CA City Council. The prospects for passage seem solid. We need to see other communities follow. The frame for this trend then becomes:

Key point #4: Has the Consent of the Governed been withdrawn, YET?

This resolution provides a message and a means for us to speak in one voice. Even better, what I've linked to is really a template that is meant to be customized by each group or community that wants to support it. If the changes leave intact the key points above then the national collection of resolutions would appear to have this one voice component, despite minor differences; and each local version would have the one voice component borne of community meetings and consensus building.

Regardless of whether the one voice impression is created, it is essential that a healing unification occur among our countrymen. Stay mindful of tending to this. Instead of telling people about lies they shouldn't believe, or events that may have been spun into fantasy by their preferred infotainment source, talk to people about what they believe until you find them contradicting themselves. It is inevitable and it is the path to freeing people from their cognitive dissonance. Help people see how they lie to themselves and you will flip a switch that makes everything else above possible.