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Kip Humphrey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-15-06 02:19 PM
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30. Instead of fighting to regain our democracy stolen by neo-fascists
we fell into the ineffectual pablum of election reform and its politically correct ways so as not to offend those in power for whom we carried a self-deluded notion that they would pass corrective legislation if only we asked or persuaded politely!

FACT: Those in power will not relinquish their control of our election processes without massive public insistence (See Ukraine).

FACT: Without massive public support and insistence, we've got nothing.

FACT: Pursuing meaningless paper receipts generated for/from wholly untrustworthy digital vote processing systems because "its a start..." or "at least we have paper records..." is entirely self-defeating and very dangerous to ever gaining sufficient public support and involvement to regain our democracy.

FACT: We know what to do:
1. On street corners, at house parties, and via the Internet, educate the public about the stolen elections and the loss of our democracy engineered by digital vote processing systems
2. Motivate those we educate to spread the word and educate others
3. Mobilize those so motivated to lobby and organize protests
4. Demand Hand Counted Paper Ballots and the complete elimination of digital vote processing systems



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