Reply #38: The dynamic and the reality [View All]

Of course it isn't time to give, but assessing the dynamic should not make anyone comfortable.

By November there will be more electronic devices in place than ever, some with paper trails as abominable as the original machinery. Certain states will have fought off or curtailed the e-voting machinery, but even there in places will it have any effect in time? The press does its service anytime the reality rises hard and fast to the surface. Then will allow, as they always do, the truth to sink and flounder.

What can be achieved:

Enough areas cleansed of e-voting and fraud to make ANY explanation other than e-voting fraud impossible, including mere "glitchiness" and unreliability. It will be very difficult to fine tune frame memes for the Dems to beat themselves over the head with and make the tampering with tallies very dicey. Awareness has spread for a wider more organized challenging. The impetus to go forward will increase regardless of the results of the election.

The caveat: Much more could have been done by action groups acting together on this, albeit many of them along with most of the nation were kept away from this issue. The snake oil salesmen still come to town as if the critics and the glaring track record of the companies is an interesting sidebar. The Democrats nor anyone else can rely on reform this year for most elections. Added to that is the power of the WH to scramble the polls with some event or other to provide false rationale on November 4th. The media, despite the editorials and reports can be poised to swamp the election activist message. Cautious Dems and the more cautious leadership that has hurt itself vastly in two areas(NOT leading this charge, NOT going for huge populist majorities). They need to get on board for self preservation.

Before the election is fouled up again, as it MUST be, the reformers need to get in the face, get to the hands about to reach into the cookie jar, prepare and pre-empt and punish the inevitable. The bottom line voting result atmosphere, where no matter what happens the desired result is to deny Dems a fair vote and many victories. Then they will doggedly fight the challenges before they even get on the beach. We have to be there already and never surrender the initiative. Too much has been defensive, argumentative and reactive, the begging for the paper trail and voter confidence reasoning being great but insufficient for this year's reality.

After all this time, with the ongoing greater advance of more e-voting, the resistance is just catching on, catching up and all the GOP stone walls, all the Dem apathy, all the media apathy is in place to ruin this year. The main thing is the evidence and the easy, growing public awareness of simple truths. That must be the groundwork of an aggressive grassroots advance on all levels, everywhere to get the real votes counted and recorded and recounted this fall. The Venezuela opponents of Chavez did not settle for the meager things we have. They had scrutiny and challenges for every part of the system without any plurality of the votes to back them up. The establishment of e-fraud charges should be so shrill that every precinct in America should expect to be under the microscope before, during and after the election.

There are two things that are not happening, neither very good in themselves. There is no easy answer, no legislative cure-all or messiah to make this all go away by November. There is not the necessary nationwide resistance to these machines in any field, especially institutional leadership, the media, the courts. In short the battle is merely enjoined and the dynamic still in need of forming and becoming pro-active and not fall short of the deeds done in other nations less favored than ours.

Since when was "We have not yet begun to fight" a cry of dismay and surrender? Nice to look back on after the story is completely over and the little guy has won. Easy to forget at the time when things were darkest that your smaller ship, riddled by cannon balls by the master navy of the world was logically doomed.