had dire consequences, because it has made the American people helpless to stop an unjust war that has killed tens of thousands of innocent people, and because it prevents change, progress, regulation, and potential de-chartering of the worst global predators.
Two rightwing Bushite corporations--Diebold and ES&S--gained control of our nation's election system, in the 2001-2004 period, using "TRADE SECRET," PROPRIETARY programming code in the new electronic voting machines, with virtually no audit/recount controls--a voting system brought to you by the two biggest crooks in Congress, Tom Delay and Bob Ney, who pushed the $4 billion "Help America Vote Act" boondoggle on the states, with no controls on partisan vendors, no controls on secret programming, no paper trail requirement, no controls on lavish lobbying and "revolving door" employment, no controls on secret industry 'testing' of the machines, and underfunded regulation by a Bush-appointed commission.
What else should we expect from such a voting system but Bush and his "pod people" Congress retaining power, despite war and torture that 60% of the American people opposed at the time of the 2004 election, and a humongous deficit opposed by 90% (to mention just a few of the big disagreements between the Bush junta and the people).
When Bechtel privatized the water in one Bolivian city and jacked up the prices to the poor, the Bolivians rose up and threw Bechtel out of their country, and elected Evo Morales as president, Bolivia's first indigenous Indian president, thus aligning Bolivia with the huge leftist, anti-corporate, anti-imperialist revolution that has swept South America (--in Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Venezuela, Bolivia and soon Peru).
Is our election system not as important?
Transparent elections = good government, of, by and for the people.
Non-transparent elections = the Bush junta.
It's a no-brainer.
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Some resources for American Revolution II:
Breaking: www.VoterAction.org is suing the state of California and 18 Calif county registrars on behalf of 25 California voter/plaintiffs, for the illegal "certification" of Diebold election theft machines.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2180496www.votersunite.org (MythBreakers - easy primer on electronic voting--one of the myths is that HAVA requires electronic voting; it does not.)
www.verfiedvoting.org (great activist site)
www.votetrustusa.org (news of this great movement from around the country)
www.UScountvotes.org (statistical monitoring of '06 and '08 elections)
www.solarbus.org/election/index.shtml (fab compendium of all election info)
www.freepress.org (devoted to election reform)
www.bradblog.com (also great, and devoted to election reform) (current: the breakdown of the election theft machines in Texas)
www.TruthIsAll.net (analysis of the 2004 election)* :patriot: :applause: :patriot:
Sign the petition (Russ Holt, HR 550, great bill-has 169 sponsors).
http://www.rushholt.com/petition.htmlwww.votepa.us (well-organized local group of citizen activists in Pennsylvania, where important legal issues are at stake, including state's rights over election systems)
www.debrabowen.com (Calif Senator running for Sec of State to reform election system)
www.johnbonifaz.com (running for Massachusetts Sec of State on strong election reform and antiwar platform)
*Some tributes to TruthIsAll, who is very ill:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x417007http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x417231http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x675477Also of interest:
Bob Koehler (-- four recent election reform initiatives in Ohio, predicted to win by 60/40 votes, flipped over, on election day, into 60/40 LOSSES!--the biggest flipover we've seen yet; the election theft machines and their masters are now dictating election policy!)
www.tmsfeatures.com/tmsfeatures/subcategory.jsp?file=20051124ctnbk-a.txt&catid=1824&code=ctnbk
Bob Koehler's latest: "Take this box and stuff it" (3/16/06)
http://commonwonders.com/archives/col337.htmAmaryllis (Diebold, ES&S, Sequoia lavish lobbying of election officials - Beverly Hilton, Aug. '05)
www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x380340
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Throw Diebold, ES&S and all election theft machines into 'Boston Harbor' NOW!
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