Reply #38: Carter Center: National standards? I see a danger in this!

[Peace Patriot]

Carter Center: "an independent national election authority that administers elections nationwide with uniform processes and standards."

You want BushCons setting "national standards" for voting, and stacking a so-called "independent national election authority" the way they stack the courts? (--or putting weak Dems on it for "balance"?)

Right now, our only hope for retrieving our right to vote is the states' authority over election rules.

Bush's Congress is not going to fix this, and could make it worse. The Dems have no power to pass good election standards or to prevent even worse dictates from on high.

BEWARE!

I think we have to do this locally, state by state, where the public still has some influence, and where officials and rules are closer to home.

We are dealing with a junta--a fascist coup. You think they're going to be fair? You think they want you to vote?

Get real.

They could change the Constitution tomorrow, grab all power over elections, and who could stop them? The Dems? The media?

Even in bad states like Ohio and Florida, it's better to leave state power in tact, because that way public has a CHANCE to get control of it again. If BushCons grab that power (urged on by Dems wanting "national standards"), look out!

I know some of the Dems like this as an issue (and J. Jackson wants a Constitutional amendment), but I think they are being blind to the realities of the situation, and do not perceive this danger. I'd just as soon Congress keep its hands off of election reform. Look at the goddamned mess they created! --and the result, four more years (or more) of the Oil Cartel running our government!

Maybe some correction of abuses okay--like reinforcement of the Voting Rights Act(!), and calling off the Blackwell dogs. But forcing the states to do this and that carries the huge risk that the "this and that" will be dead wrong!