Reply #8: TRANSPARENT elections would solve many problems INSTANTLY. [View All]

[Peace Patriot]

For one thing, Republicans would no longer be getting a 5% to 10% automatic advantage in the vote count (easily doable--and they've done it--with these extremely hackable, Bushite controlled machines).

This is NOT to say that the Democrats shouldn't reform their platform and their message and their loss of any understanding of who their constituency is. They SHOULD reform, and start representing the MAJORITY of people in the country. For instance, if Kerry had held an anti-war position, a principled anti-torture position, and had been stronger on issues like universal health care, he would have won bigger than he did. He won by about 5% (if all votes had been counted), which wasn't enough to beat the combined electronic fraud (pre-programmed to about 3%, on average) and the massive Republican officials' suppression of Democratic votes in places like Ohio and Florida. Big progressive votes CAN beat the fraud (as least as it was implemented in 2004).

Although we have some great Democrats--Senators Boxer, Feingold and Kennedy, for instance--these special Democrats carry the burden of representing 60% to 70% of the people in the country. (60% against the war, over 60% against torture "under any circumstances," over 60% anti-Bush on MOST issues, and on Bush himself, over 80% anti-Cheney, and something like 90% against Bush/Cheney's thieving deficit--and these big anti-Bush numbers have hardly changed over two years' time. Some numbers lie (such as the polls they did right around election time showing a close race), but these numbers--numerous polls over time, on many issues--don't lie. This is still a VERY PROGRESSIVE country!)

But I'm convinced that we are NOT going to get good Dem Party representation--real representation of our interests from all of our leaders--until the Dem Party faces this issue of the fraudulent election SYSTEM.

The national SILENCE on this matter is SCREAMING at us.