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September 7, 2007 at 16:39:46

Headlined on 9/7/07:
The Cat in the Hat, elusive happy endings, and the [election] mess that is so big, and so deep, and so tall

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For you Mary Engelbreit fans, I’m reminded of her picture of a young girl who stands, arms akimbo, lips pursed disapprovingly, and commands, “Snap out of it!” This is no time for apathy, complacency, or excuses of any kind. It’s time to follow this girl’s advice. As my brother used to say, “Immediately, if not sooner.”

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Joan Brunwasser is a co-founder of Citizens for Election Reform (CER) which exists for the sole purpose of raising the public awareness of the critical need for election reform. We aim to restore fair, accurate, transparent, secure elections where votes are cast in private and counted in public. Electronic (computerized) voting systems are simply antithetical to democratic principles.

CER set up a lending library to achieve the widespread distribution of the DVD Invisible Ballots: A temptation for electronic vote fraud. Within eighteen months, the project had distributed over 3200 copies across the country and beyond. CER now concentrates on group showings, OpEd pieces, articles, reviews, interviews, discussion sessions, networking, conferences, anything that promotes awareness of this critical problem. Joan has been Election Integrity Editor for OpEdNews since December, 2005.

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My name it means nothing, my age it means less. My deeds of activism are mine to enjoy and share as I feel necesary, not as some clown in a small forum's administration thinks I must..This place gets worse each and every visit.
Member banned on June 3, 2008 for repeated abuse of editors.
ardee D.My name it means nothing, my age it means less. My deeds of activism are mine to enjoy and share as I feel necesary, not as some clown in a small forum's administration thinks I must..This place gets worse each and every visit.
Member banned on June 3, 2008 for repeated abuse of editors.

Interesting analogies

"Where the Wild Things Are" was, hands down, my childrens favorite book. We wore out several copies and I subsequently purchased more as my grandkids came along. The illustrations alone are worth the purchase price.

I have long puzzled at America's ability to ignore such serious peril to the democratic process as election fraud. With two former Ohio election officials serving sentences related to such fraud one simply cannot dismiss the topic as "conspiracy theory" yet noone, outside of a few dedicated folks like those BBV people, are raising the issue. One might conjecture that, as the recipient of the short end of miscounted votes, democrats would be at the forefront of the fight to restore a simple and easily administered system like paper ballots but not a word can be heard.....

Here in California our touch screen machines have been decertified, albeit "temporarily", and I cannot wait to see what comes of this. The Holt bill has been defanged quite summarily by Microsoft to such effect as to be rejected by the author himself. The point is not that there are isolated incidents of folks attempting to restore sanity and legality to our "free elections" but that there is nowhere to be heard the loud outcry such machinations deserve.....Why can we not find large numbers of folks dedicated to our democratic processes? Why do we not understand that democracy is fragile and must be constantly maintained through participation?

by ardee D. (6 articles, 4 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 2377 comments) on Saturday, September 8, 2007 at 7:49:59 AM

Joan Brunwasser is a co-founder of Citizens for Election Reform (CER) which exists for the sole purpose of raising the public awareness of the critical need for election reform. We aim to restore fair, accurate, transparent, secure elections where votes are cast in private and counted in public. Electronic (computerized) voting systems are simply antithetical to democratic principles.CER set up a lending library to achieve the widespread distribution of the DVD Invisible Ballots: A temptation...

to see more of bio, click on member name
Joan BrunwasserJoan Brunwasser is a co-founder of Citizens for Election Reform (CER) which exists for the sole purpose of raising the public awareness of the critical need for election reform. We aim to restore fair, accurate, transparent, secure elections where votes are cast in private and counted in public. Electronic (computerized) voting systems are simply antithetical to democratic principles.CER set up a lending library to achieve the widespread distribution of the DVD Invisible Ballots: A temptation...

to see more of bio, click on member name

wonderful and chilling

Joan--This is superb, a wonderful and chilling connection made. We keep waiting for "Mom" to come home and bless the happy ending, but it appears that we are orphans in denial.

JS, MA

by Joan Brunwasser (164 articles, 3538 quicklinks, 3 diaries, 634 comments) on Saturday, September 8, 2007 at 8:09:14 PM