Reply #12: This is a very important post and a very important thread. I think it's

[Peace Patriot]

vital to face the whole truth--that this has been a fascist coup--in order to strategize effectively against it. It is a unique kind of coup in many respects. We have no precedent for it. It has combined some quite subtle elements with crude power grabs. I think we still have a chance to restore our election system, but our window of opportunity to do that may not be that long--a year or two. This is one of the reasons I support the Absentee Ballot protest. If enough people vote Absentee (and many already are--it's up to 50% in Los Angeles), and flood local state/ election officials with MOUNTAINS of paper ballots, and refuse to vote on these election theft machines, and register a huge citizen "vote of no confidence" in the election system, we can FORCE reform NOW. AB votes aren't "safe" either, and this protest will NOT result in accurate counts this fall, but it could raise a big enough stink--a crisis, panic in the election theft industry--that we can push many election officials to the table. Many have developed such hostility to the public--in the culture of secrecy and privatization that Diebold/ES&S have fostered--that they don't think we have a right to say how our votes will be counted, or any right to review election data. We need to rebel! We need to refuse to vote on these diabolical machines.

There are many other problems with our election system, but this takes the cake--TRADE SECRET, PROPRIETARY programming code--code that not even our secretaries of state are permitted to review. It is outrageous. It gives PRIVATE CORPORATIONS--Bushite corporations!--control over election results! It is the ultimate method of power and control. And we MUST break it! And we must break it SOON!