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Iowa Finally Has Definitive Winner: The Voters

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Even the GOP establishment--which had long decided that Mitt Romney was their best hope to win back the White House in 2012 among those currently running --could not overcome the intent of the voters as transparently expressed on publicly hand-counted, hand-marked paper ballots. Nobody ever had to rest their faith on a single source, like a political party or a candidate or a voting machine company --though the media was all too happy to do so before moving on to New Hampshire. There was always a transparent, overseeable, system of checks and balances -just as our Constitution envisions for the nation's governance as a whole -there to assure that self-governance had a fighting chance to be more than a bumper sticker slogan hauled out when convenient, ignored when not.
Because the Iowa GOP allowed the people to oversee the counting of their own election, right then and there
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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 elections where votes are cast in private and counted in public. Because the problems with electronic (computerized) voting systems include a lack of (more...)
 

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