Reply #87: Teddy I am truly sorry your offended...

[Andy_Stephenson]

and I did not mean to offend you honestly.

"You are not an expert on voting rights." True enough...but voting rights mean nothing if my vote can be subverted via machinery that has been and continues to be proven flawed.

"Write in Presidential ballots -- every military and overseas voter has this right today under federal law. Why shouldn't you?" Simply...because I am not overseas and this would create a bigger mess than it solves. I have a friend (an elections expert) who is agast at this idea. The Language on signing and sending it in are, pardon me, laughable.

"You were not consulted. That is true. " and I would like to know why? I have been followed...threatened and harrased by these people. I think I have earned at least a bone here as have many others who have given nearly everything to this issue. Last night I was sick...I could not even afford to go to the Doctor ...why...because I have taken myself to the edge over this issue.

"I think I have made a good faith effort to explain the bill and to be candid about its limitations." Yes you did...and when I said I would like to make a few suggestions to make it better I was told..."Sorry...it's too late to do that". Sorry...the only time it is too late is when we the people say it is too late.

"You have studied this issue enough to not know that Conyers and Senator Reid have a bill (Conyers has introduced it for years) that does exactly what you are advocating." How many years were the Democrats in control of the House and Senate? 40? I see this as a strawman argument. The Republicans have not always been in control.
If the Democrats had the intestinal fortitude to make this happen it would happen.

One last comment. Conyers Bill wnats to study the possibility of making Voting day a national holiday...WHY wast the money studying it? Make it a holiday already!



Edit: Honestly all the hoopla over the Ensign Dodd et all bills is beginning to turn me off to any kind of machine. Perhaps we should go to all paper, all hand counted, all the time.