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Historically,government,whether in the hands of Republicans or Democrats, conservatives or liberals,has failed its responsibilities,until forced to by direct action:sit-ins and Freedom Rides for the rights of black people, strikes&boycotts for the rights of workers,mutinies&desertions of soldiers in order to stop a war.Voting is easy&marginally useful,but it is a poor substitute for democracy,which requires direct action by...

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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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