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...all the votes are now "counted" electronically, using TRADE SECRET, PROPRIETARY programming code, owned and controlled by the following Bushite corporations:
DIEBOLD: Until recently, headed by Wally O'Dell, a Bush-Cheney campaign chair and major fundraiser (a Bush "Pioneer," right up there with Ken Lay), who promised in writing to "deliver Ohio's electoral votes to Bush-Cheney in 2004"; and
ES&S: A spinoff of Diebold (similar computer architecture), initially funded by rightwing billionaire Howard Ahmanson, who also gave one million dollars to the extremist 'christian' Chalcedon Foundation (which touts the death penalty for homosexuals, among other things). Diebold and ES&S have an incestuous relationship; they are run by two brothers, Bob and Todd Urosevich.
These are the people who "counted" 80% of the nation's votes in 2004, under a veil of corporate secrecy. Their power is even more entrenched now, fast-tracked by a nearly $4 billion electronic voting boondoggle, engineered by the biggest crooks in the Anthrax Congress, Tom Delay and Bob Ney (now indicted or resigned in bribery scandals), with the Democratic Party leadership too afraid or too corrupt to object (a situation that has not changed).
SEQUOIA: The third major election theft industry player, which hired Republican former Calif Secretary of State Bill Jones, and his chief aide, Alfie Charles, to peddle their machines--in an outstanding example of the highly corrupt practice of "revolving door" employment.
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Non-transparent elections are NOT elections. They are tyranny. That's what we have. You wonder how Bush can be so arrogant? This is why.
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The only way I can see of reforming this election system peacefully, and quickly, is a MASSIVE citizen revolt against the machines this fall, by ABSENTEE BALLOT VOTING. It won't give us an accurate vote count this fall (that is impossible), but, if enough people vote by AB--say, if all those who despise the Bush Junta (65% to 70%) vote by Absentee Ballot--we CAN create sufficient panic and crisis in the election theft industry to FORCE reform NOW--and save the '08 primaries and general election from secret corporate vote "counting" controlled by Bushites.
Really, friends, this is IT. If we let Stolen Election III go by without effective, large-scale protest against secret vote "counting," I don't know if we will have another opportunity. Bush is already claiming an Emperor's powers. He has 30% support, at best--and yet he gets to write our laws, torture, kill, detain without charge, spy on us, rob us blind, and rip up our Constitution at his whim?
You may think he's delusional, when he says the Bushites will "win." I think that's a mistake. He and his Junta have the power to steal this election, and what is there to stop them?
Our only hope is pressuring election officials at the state/local level , where the decisions about voting systems are still made, and where ordinary people still have some influence. And our only option is to make their lives miserable this November with MASSIVE Absentee Ballot voting, as a protest against the machines. BOYCOTT the machines! Let them sit idle! And show these election officials up for the corrupt fools they are. We must FORCE reform NOW. The system is NOT going to correct itself. WE, the people, must correct it, by our concerted revolt against these rigged electronic voting systems.
BUST THE MACHINES--VOTE BY ABSENTEE BALLOT THIS NOVEMBER!
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Important notes: AB votes are not "safe" either. In some cases, they are merely scanned into the rigged electronic system. In others, they are disregarded, and counted "later"--after the rigged e-voting totals are announced. But if, say, 70% of the people boycott the machines, and vote by AB, then corrupt election officials will be "calling" the election on the basis of one third of the vote (the e-vote). That is absurd, and it WILL expose this fraud. A massive AB voting protest will bring increased scrutiny to how AB votes are handled, and to the whole system. You can't really run elections, in a supposed democracy, when most people have "no confidence" in the election system. There ARE many ways to improve handling and security of AB votes. (Oregon has been doing it for some time.) And e-voting, run on "trade secret," proprietary code, is by far THE most insecure and riggable system. Even the optiscans are highly insecure and riggable--and ALL the machines, including the central tabulators, are run on completely non-transparent "trade secret" code. With the optiscans, you vote on a ballot, but your vote is then separated from the evidence of your vote (the ballot), and your "vote" becomes a bunch of electrons which are "sent" to the central tabulator where your "vote" is EASILY changed. Your ballot is dumped into a box and almost never seen again. At best, there is a 1% audit (completely inadequate in this INVISIBLE high-speed electronic environment). Many states have NO audit. And recounts are expensive, difficult and extremely rare, in this new culture of secrecy that Bushite corporations have brought to our election system. ALL these SECRETLY coded machines must go--including the optiscans. Right now, some AB voting is no more safe from rigged totals than optiscan votes are. That's why we cannot expect accurate vote counts this fall, even with a massive AB voting protest. But an Absentee Ballot vote is a monkey wrench in the system. It is NON-COOPERATION. It is a BOYCOTT, a PROTEST. And if it's massive, it will be a massive monkey wrench that will bring this election theft industry to its knees. The AB voting protest will benefit our democracy, and it has no downside. It will help turnout. It's a great motivator for disillusioned non-voters--to be part of a protest aimed at un-rigging the system. It precisely targets the mechanism of Bushite tyranny. It is a means of FORCING reform. It is the only option we have left for November--and may save the '08 elections from electronic rigging.
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