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Will the 2012 Presidential Election Be Stolen?

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"5.Voting should be available over a period of weeks by mail, and at polling stations through the Friday-Saturday-Sunday-Monday around Armistice Day, November 11.  The polls should be largely worked by high school and college students who will get school credit for the day, and who will get a holiday that Tuesday to count the ballots.

"6.All electronic voting and counting machines should be banned (as Ireland has just done, and as has long been the case in Canada, Japan, Germany and elsewhere) with all ballots cast on recycled paper, to be hand-counted."

Not a bad list.  Too bad you can't vote it into being.  But we probably won't get it at all if we lose every last pretense of legitimate elections.  Reforming our elections must be integral to our agenda, even once we've figured out that the Messiah hasn't been nominated.  After all, that realization is tightly connected to the realization that our elections need major repairs.  The Messiah will never be nominated, even after all of these reforms, but we might manage to nominate a junior assistant disciple -- which is actually preferable, and which will be far superior to the current crop of moneychangers.

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