Tag(s): ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; (more...) , Add Tags  (less...)
Add to My Group(s)

View Ratings | Rate It

Permalink
View Article Stats      (4 comments)

Why Smoke Was Coming out of My Ears

Add this Page to Facebook!
Submit to Twitter
Submit to Reddit
Submit to Stumble Upon

Tell A Friend

Become a Fan
Get Embed HTML Code
By (about the author)

Become a Fan Become a Fan  (38 fans)   -- Page 2 of 2 page(s)

opednews.com

• "Stealing America: Vote by Vote" A new film produced by Emmy Award winning, Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker, Dorothy Fadiman. She brings together behind-the-scenes perspectives from Election 2004. Interviewees include voters who experienced hardships, poll workers, computer experts, nationally recognized journalists, as well as others concerned about the Presidential election of Nov. 2, 2004 and democracy in the United States. For more information or to arrange a screening, please visit http://www.stealingamerica.org

I don't care who you are: die-hard Republican, skeptical independent, disappointed Democrat, outspoken non-voter or somewhere in between. Don't kid yourself. This affects YOU! I've mentioned before that I had a bumper sticker hanging in my kitchen that said "Wake me up when it's over." The sad truth is that we can't wait it out and hope that when we emerge, things will have changed. If they have, trust me, it won't be for the better. If we have candidates who are 'elected' fraudulently and elections that are based on faulty vote-counting, then what we have is no longer the democracy Americans have fought and died for. We should all be in total agreement on that. A system which inadvertently or purposefully disenfranchises a good portion of its citizens is simply not a system to either defend or export.

Brent Budowsky wrote a great guest editorial today which I'd like to quote at length and finish with.

"The danger is so severe, it is beyond a simple description, but the common sense of the solution is within our power to control, if we use every means at our disposal to wage the fight, with a determination to win that exceeds anything we have seen in 2000, 2002, and 2004.

Thomas Paine championed the notion that the cause of America was the cause of the world. Nothing is more important to America, to our cause, to our country, to our world, than the right of a free people to vote in free and fair elections. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing.

Without that right, all others are endangered.


This is not 2000, 2002, 2004, and America this November must not be like the election in Maryland, this September. It must be the America that our founding fathers envisioned with elections that belong to us all, one person, one vote, one democracy.

Paine said we have the power to remake the world. And we do. And we can. So let's roll." http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/contributors/416


*** *** ****

Joan Brunwasser is the Voting Integrity Editor for OpEdNews. She runs the "Invisible Ballots" lending library project which has, in a year's time, distributed copies of the documentary to almost 2,000 individuals and groups in 37 states, Washington DC, Puerto Rico and five foreign countries. Contact her at joan@opednews.com and support her work by making a donation to InternationalHumanities Center, a nonprofit organization under Section 501 (c)(3) of the IRS code.
http://ihcenter.org/groups/citizensforelectionreform.html

Next Page  1  |  2

 

http://www.opednews.com/author/author79.html

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 (more...)
 

The views expressed in this article are the sole responsibility of the author
and do not necessarily reflect those of this website or its editors.

Contact Author Contact Editor View Authors' Articles

Follow Me on Twitter

 

Share this page: (what's this?)                   Tell a Friend: Tell A Friend

Add this Page to Facebook!      Submit to Stumble Upon      Submit to Reddit      Add This Page to Mr Wong!           NEWSVINE      DEl.ICIO.US      Looksmart Furl      My Web      Blink List     (More...)

Comments

The time limit for entering new comments on this article has expired.

This limit can be removed. Our paid membership program is designed to give you many benefits, such as removing this time limit. To learn more, please click here.

Comments: Expand   Shrink   Hide  
4 comments
To view all comments:
Expand Comments
(Or you can set your preferences to show all comments, always)

If you want to address this issue, give us money! by Rob Field on Wednesday, Sep 20, 2006 at 5:01:18 AM
Complain to Senator Hagel or Jeb Bush? by Jim Reinhart on Wednesday, Sep 20, 2006 at 9:05:17 AM
There is no more important issue by ardee D. on Wednesday, Sep 20, 2006 at 5:07:06 PM
The Let America Vote Act of 2006 (LAVA) by Mark E. Smith on Wednesday, Sep 20, 2006 at 5:58:09 PM