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whether it's by touchscreen or optiscan, our election results are absurdly, egregiously, outrageously, mind-bogglingly UNRELIABLE.
A paper ballot does not make an election secure unless the ballots are, a) COUNTED, and b) in PUBLIC VIEW. An optiscan scanner run on "TRADE SECRET" code does NOT constitute PUBLIC VIEW. There is only one thing that does: one person counting the ballots while others, including any citizen of the country who wants to, WATCHES them do it. Opstican 'counting' is one election theft scam. CENTRALIZED optiscan 'counting'--where votes are transported OUT OF PUBLIC VIEW *BEFORE* THEY ARE COUNTED, is another. And centralized hand-counting--even without a "TRADE SECRET" code machine--is a third. All three are INHERENTLY fraudulent--not just insecure and unreliable, not just stupid, and not just when there are anomalous numbers and unexpected results, but inherently fraudulent. There is NO REASON for secret vote counting EXCEPT fraud.
Not enough money. Not enough people. Too many voters. Too many items on the ballot. Inconvenience. Slowness--lack of instant results.
These are BULLSHIT. There is NO REASON for secret vote counting EXCEPT fraud.
Not enough money--bullshit. They've given all the money--BILLIONS!--to rightwing Bushite voting machine corporations. Not enough people--bullshit. They've driven people away with their corporate "culture of secrecy." Too many voters--yeah, if you consider them to be cannon fodder and slave labor. Too many items on the ballot--so what? Inconvenience--whose? Slowness--lack of instant results--corporate media-driven bullshit. Canada handcounts them all in one day. And even if it takes a month, that is not TOO MUCH TIME for accurate, reliable, PUBLICLY-COUNTED results.
We have an inherently fraudulent vote counting system, all over the country, rushed into place during the 2002 to 2004 period, for the purpose of CONTINUING the war and massive corporate looting. What else does it have to do to us, before we wake up and restore TRANSPARENT vote counting--and democracy? This time, it may not give us McBush--that might cause Boston Tea Party II, the dumping of the machines. This egregiously non-transparent, Bushite-controlled vote counting may instead be used to severely SHAVE Obama's mandate, and/or give him a difficult Congress (say, packed with "Blue Dog" Democrats), so that he can accomplish exactly nothing on our behalf. We CAN'T KNOW how our vote counts are being manipulated, or to what end, if the votes are not counted in PUBLIC VIEW. The only way we know that Obama has won the nomination is the CAUCUSES, which are NOT COUNTED BY DIEBOLD & BRETHREN.
Really. That's it. Nothing else is trustworthy. No corporate poll. No Diebold & brethren count. The surge of grass roots, people support for Obama in the caucuses are why I'm backing him. Otherwise, I wouldn't know--and nobody else CAN know--what went down. Until it was evident that Obama was winning the caucuses I wasn't sure who was the global corporate predator candidate. Given our global corporate predator media, you cannot easily tell who's who and what's what. I'm STILL not sure, but I do believe in THE PEOPLE, and I think that the amazing citizen activism of Obama's supporters at the least gives us a basis on which to recreate our democracy--it is THE essential element--as well as assuring that, whoever Obama really is, he will be more beholden to THE PEOPLE than Clinton, and most certainly than McBush. Because of what happened in the caucuses.
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