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...of the antiwar movement in the '60s, trying to stop that horrendous slaughter, and was a young white civil rights worker in Alabama in 1965, fighting for the right of black citizens to vote.
It galls me, and tears at my heart, to see us going through Vietnam again, and also to see what Republican election officials did to black voters in Ohio and Florida this year.
Please convey my sympathy and prayers to your friends! I'm very disturbed by what you have said, and I'm acutely aware of the horror that they and others are facing--as are many of the activists in this forum.
I feel that the strongest thing we can do about it is to OVERTURN THIS ELECTION, or at the least get it thoroughly investigated and the fraud exposed, and to work state by state, county by county, for, 1) a paper trail for every vote, and 2) open source code for all electronic voting.
We have effectively lost the right to vote--the fundamental right of our democracy. That is the key problem we must address. And IF we can restore our right to vote, I'm certain that we can elect a progressive, antiwar, impeachment-minded Congress in '06.
Changing the voting system is a reasonable, doable thing--but we need to act fast.
There is already overwhelming evidence of massive election fraud in '04, mainly via the Republican-owned and controlled central vote tabulation machines and other electronic voting machines. Partisan Republican companies hold the source code that controls these machines as proprietary information (NO PUBLIC REVIEW!). Weird, anomalous numbers are turning up all over the map--in about a dozen states (so far)--all favoring Bush. The odds are on the order of a million to one that this is innocent error, according to several expert studies that have been done.
Several of those studies are about the Exit Polls on the day of the election. The Exit Polls (face to face questioning of voters) showed a Kerry win, probably by a landslide. But then...some time between 4 pm and 6 pm, the TV networks began mixing the Republican-controlled electronic voting data in with the Exit Poll data--effectively hiding Kerry's big numbers in the Exit Polls--and making it appear that Bush was winning late in the day.
In the Ukraine, the difference between the Exit Polls and the tallied vote caused riots and 500,000 people in the streets to protest. Why didn't that happen here? Because the TV networks hid the Exit Poll data, and people DIDN'T KNOW.
Non-partisan Exit Polls are used worldwide to verify elections, and guard against fraud. The only time they've been inaccurate (or have seemed to be) is when Bush is running for office. (Truly!)
According to the Exit Polls (which statisticians have since been able to partially sort out from the tallied vote), Kerry very likely won this election.
Further, the Exit Poll/tallied vote difference only occurs in the states Bush needed to win, and the differentials always favor Bush (statistical impossibilities). And this is only a part of the evidence of a fraudulent election. (There are several other kinds of statistical evidence--for instance, absentee/paper ballot vs. electronic vote, with the latter weirdly favoring Bush; and impossible-sized votes for Bush in big Democratic counties--as well as grossly abusive vote suppression against Democratic and minority voters by Republican election officials in several states.)
Until this election fraud is fully exposed, and until we wrest control of our voting system away from private, partisan Republican companies, we have no hope of stopping the Iraq war or influencing policy in any way. None!
We have to restore democracy here first!
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