Saving Your Right to Vote by William Pitt

[babylonsister]

Sorry if this is a dupe; feel free to delete

William Rivers Pitt: Saving Your Right to Vote

By: William Rivers Pitt
Published: Nov 22, 2004
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Section two of the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution reads, in paraphrase, as follows: "But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the executive and judicial officers of a state, or the members of the legislature thereof, is denied to any of the inhabitants of such state, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such state." In other words, if a state can't manage to run a fair election, that state loses Senators or Congresspeople. I have this dream of sending Senators DeWine and Voinovich of Ohio, along with Congressman Ralph Regula of Ohio, out of Washington in a blizzard of shame and disgrace. It's a dream, but a good one.

You've heard from Jonathan Simon tonight about what has been happening over the last several weeks since the election. By now you've also heard the stories: Nationally, there were more than 1,100 incidents of electronic voting machine malfunctions. In Broward County, Florida, election workers were shocked to discover that their shiny new machines were counting backwards. "Tallies should go up as more votes are counted," according to the news story. "That's simple math. But in some races, the numbers had gone down. Officials found the software used in Broward can handle only 32,000 votes per precinct. After that, the system starts counting backward." (more)

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[Jack_Dawson]

1. Please summarize for me

I don't have time to wade through Mr. Pitt's piece right now. Is he a conspiracy theorist or not? I am one myself...as is Randi and everyone else w/ a brain.

[babylonsister]

3. Basically, Mr. Pitt

points out all the discrepancies found with the election results, writes about all the voting machine malfunctions and how hackable the machines are, and emphasizes the funds needed to combat the problems.

[scottxyz]

2. This is the "Punish Ohio" suggestion we saw elsewhere on DU

...and I think it's a GREAT idea.

States have the right to implement their own elections.

If they're not up to the job - punish them.

It says so right in the Constitution. Rule of Law!

[TahitiNut]

4. That's 32,767 actually (hex '7FFF')... then it'd overflow.

:shrug: Those signed, half-word counters will get you every time. (Fucking stupid!)