Reply #9: My concern is..... [View All]

[DeSwiss]

...that any initiative that attempts to demand a verifiable voting system will be met with obfuscation, delays and ultimately the ways and means to counter it. And once that fails, that even when we later seek to vote these suckers out, we'd have to do so with the same crooked voting machines that undermine elections to begin with. Maybe I'm too old and cynical.

But two years ago I told my elected official (State Senator Harper TN-D) that I objected to the E&S system we've used in the past three election cycles and what did she do? She voted for the state legislation which now requires all counties to upgrade to this or a similar type lousy electronic voting systems.

I'm not saying it's impossible to counter this, but the Powers That Be didn't work this hard and spend all that money to get to this point, only to let it get pissed away by citizen campaigns. The fact is, I believe that the whole underlying basis for our society (the capitalistic system) and this rotten government that protects it from us, is on thin ice. And when it that ice breaks, and it will break, voting machines will not be what concerns us. Only where the next meal is coming from.

- But you can count me in on the initiative to get rid of the damned things. You do the talking and I'll use the sledgehammer to break the bastards up......