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
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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.
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