Reply #10: The 'enemy' is the War Party, not just Republicans and Bushites. [View All]

[Peace Patriot]

We really need to understand this. In 2004, all of our votes were tabulated by two Bushite voting machine companies using SECRET, PROPRIETARY programming code--code so secret that not even our elected secretaries of state are permitted to review it. Mainly, two companies: Diebold (whose CEO was the Bush/Cheney campaign chair in Ohio, and promised in writing to "deliver" Ohio to Bush/Cheney in 2004), and ES&S (funded by far rightwing billionaires.) And Bushites were able to gain total control over our election system only with the complicity of War Democrats.

The Democratic Party leadership SHOULD HAVE burned the Capitol down to get this changed! It is an outrage! And here's why they did not: The War Democrats support Bush's war. They don't care how Bush stayed in power, and have sold out our right ot vote for their financial and career interests in the military-industrial complex, and for Israel. Secondly, local Democratic election officials and other Democrats have been corrupted by Diebold's and ES&S's lavish lobbying (i.e., for instance, recently, a week-long junket of fun, sun and high-end shopping at the Beverly Hilton in Hollywood--see below), and they have also been corrupted by the heady power of brokering the big business deals in what is now the billion dollar business of voting. (Bush's Congress provided them with $4 billion to install electronic voting systems with private, "trade secret" vote tabulation written into the contracts with the states, and often without even a "paper trail," let alone a paper ballot backup.)

You wonder why, when 58% of the American people opposed the Iraq war BEFORE the invasion--in Feb. '03--we still had this war--now an endless, bloody quagmire?

You wonder why we now have 15 permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq, some the size of small cities--when American opposition to this war and occupation has skyrocketed to over 80%?

You wonder why, when 63% of the American people oppose torture UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES--May '04--we had the architect of Bush's torture policy, Alberto Gonzales, shoved own our throats as the chief law enforcement officer of the U.S.A.?

You wonder why, when the great majority of Americans--way up in the 60% to 70%--oppose every major Bush policy, foreign and domestic, across the board in all opinion polls, for over a year now, we continue to have these anti-majority, anti-progressive, pro-rich, pro-corporate, pro-war policies forced upon us?

You wonder why the corporate news monopolies, acting in concert, FALSIFIED their own exit polls on everybody's TV screens late on election day--"ADJUSTING" the exit polls (Kerry won) "fit" the "official returns" that came in from Diebold's and ES&S's SECRET vote tabulation formulae (Bush won)--this depriving the American people of major evidence of election fraud, and squelching protests and calls for investigation?

You wonder how Bush could win, when the Democratic grass roots movement to oust the Bush Cartel blew the Bushites away in new voter registration in 2004, nearly 60/40?

You wonder why we can have such a idiot as President--an obvious puppet who can barely speak the English language, let alone think complex thoughts, who is being "handled" by the Bush Oil Cartel, and is in thrall to people like Prince Bandar and the Saudi royals including the bin Ladens?!!

The answer to all of these questions is GRAVE CORRUPTION in our election SYSTEM. This corruption and these ill motives are bipartisan. And we MUST do something about it, or our democracy is over! We need...

Paper ballots hand-counted at the precinct level (--Canada does it in one day, although speed should not even be a consideration, just accuracy and verifiability)

or, at the least

Paper ballot (not "paper trail") backup of all electronic voting, a 10% audit (automatic recount), strict security, and NO SECRET, PROPRIETARY PROGRAMMING! (...jeez!).

Join your local election reform group, or form your own, and let's get this done! Throw Diebold and ES&S election theft machines into 'Boston Harbor' NOW!

For more information and action ideas, see the "DU 2004 Election Results and Discussion Forum," at
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=203

And check out this Diebold and ES&S "corruption fest" for election officials from around the country, at the Beverly Hilton this August. It'll burn your eyeballs!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x380340


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Depleted Uranium weapons (and other uses) began as the result of decisions by BOTH Democrats and Republicans. It's true that only Republicans have led us into major wars in the last two decades, but then, the Democratic Party could NOT do major wars after Vietnam, which tore the party to shreds, with something like 90% of the Democratic rank and file opposed to unjust war (then, and today). So how the War Democrats get the wars that they want is by supporting huge military expenditures and Republican war initiatives (Gulf Wars I and II). That's exactly what happened on the Iraq war--which was made possible by the support of the War Democrats in Congress.

We need a Big Broom, my friends. And the Republicans are not the only ones who need their house cleaned.