Reply #42: make this part of conversation everyday [View All]

[appal_jack]

Yesterday, I was buying some groceries, including some items that were discounted 10% when one bought six at a time. The scanner is supposed to deduct the amount automatically, but both the cashier and i knew that these machines screw up more often than not, and she said she'd ring them up first and all together to make sure.

When the discount _did_ automatically ring up, I smiled and said, "Well, that machine did better than the ones counting votes in the last election." She just smiled back, with not even a hint of a weird look.

Now, I have no illusions that grocery store chit-chat will be all it takes to wake America up to possibilities of electronic vote fraud. But I do believe that if this 20% referenced above keeps driving this meme onward and upward, then the number of cognizant, healthy-skepticism-wielding Americans will climb proportionally.

Democracy is not a once-in-4-years exercise. Our challenge is to keep vote-scamming awareness on the front burner much more so than post-2000 (ah, 20/20 hindsight, why have I been wasting time on ANY other issues between 2000 & 2004? Why did we as a polity allow the Help America Vote Act to be such a scam???). At the same time, Democrats need to craft a vision and message that will draw such widespread support that no amount of scamming will be able to hide our mandate. Let's go full-tilt toward complete Constitutional rights for all citizens, and progressive populism guiding our economic vision. No more mealy-mouthed walking on eggshells!
-app