Joan,
You sound like an expert to me. Enthusiasm and dedication is more
important that techno-expertise. I, too, am a hand-marked and
hand-counted believer for a lot of reasons. I assume HR550 is better
than what we have, but I don't really know, either. Who knows. In
BushWorld, it doesn't really matter what the law says. They just ignore
them or interpret them any way they like, and now they have the Supreme
Court to back them up.
Sorry, don't want to sound discouraging. Keep up the good work.
--
"Evil men obsessed with ambition and unburdened by conscience must be taken very
seriously, and we must stop them before their crimes can multiply."--G. W. Bush
(I couldn't have said it better myself)
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Good piece.
My thoughts on election reform: it will have to be revamped from the
county level on up, and it won't be easy but it can be done. What do we
vote on? Paper BALLOTS. Period. Nothing else will ever do.
You will get some fight out of the die hard voting machine supporters
when you say that. Then you will know whom is whom...The states must
return to managing their own voter registration databases like they did
before they bought/leased the VR software from ES&S, Sequoia,
Choicepoint or Accenture.
Only the people can change this. I wait for them to act on this and
change it every day, I have been for over six years. e.g. Two years ago
some people told a computer scientist that they wanted to throw the
voting machines in the harbor. Throwing them out of the election
process is the only answer, sooner or later that will happen.
Re: Rush's bill: If 550 gets out of committee, it won't help us one
whit with these machines. It's not directed at putting these vendors in
prison for negligence or fining them billions for any and all voting
infractions. e.g. the North Caorlina law has some real teeth. I
lobbied for his first bill, 2239, or whatever it was, absolutely
nothing happened with any of the voting bills, they couldn't get them
out of committee. The Republicans, along with some of the Democrats
stalled them down in committee.
My point has been: the robbers are robbing our votes blind because the
doors wide open with no tough laws on our states' books against these
vendors infractions. Diebold pulled out of N. Carolina because they
were afraid of being charged with a felony after NC passed their new
voting bill...that bill was punishing to vendors and not near punishing
enough. But it worked...
voting activist whose identity is known to me but who wishes to remain anonymous
here
****
I can think of nothing more important than
collecting evidence of election manipulation, and
keeping the issues surrounding this alive. It
underlines the need for an entirely new
Democratic Party. You're doing a great job!
David Weiner, Austin, TX
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Great article. You are an expert on this and your writing is easy to
understand. Your fan and e-pal,
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