Voting is the right and responsibility of every eligible citizen. It is worth honoring, and the integrity of the system is worth protecting. People died, and continue to die so we might keep this right. People have died and continue to die to get this right for themselves in their own countries. How dare we so disregard their sacrifice by allowing the election process to degrade into this present system whose legitimacy is in question. What we're asking for demands no additional lives, but, rather, the honor and courage to accept responsibility for the status quo, and a passion and vision to carry out the duties of the office that Reed was elected to. |
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Joan Brunwasser is a co-founder of Citizens for Election Reform (CER) which since 2005 existed for the sole purpose of raising the public awareness of the critical need for election reform. Our goal: to restore fair, accurate, transparent, secure elections where votes are cast in private and counted in public. Because the problems with electronic (computerized) voting systems include a lack of (more...)