Reply #16: Opinion: Help Keep the Election Reform Movement and the Peace Movement Alive [View All]

[EFerrari]

February 17, 2008

Help Keep the Election Reform Movement and the Peace Movement Alive
By Mark Adams

As you know, Ohio and Texas are two very important states with a lot of delegates at stake in the Presidential primaries. The primary elections in both of these states are on March 4, 2008. Curiously, even though there is overwhelming public support for election reform and for restoring peace, Congressional leaders in the peace movement and the election reform movement are facing challengers in these primaries. If they lose, who in Congress would dare speak out against the war or the dangers of secret vote counting after that?

Both of these states use computers to count the votes in secret, and amazingly, no one bothers to check to make sure that the computers have counted accurately. We are just supposed to have faith in the machines. Have faith that the machines counted accurately. Have faith that the secret vote counts have not been altered by a hacker or that the results have not been pre-programmed. Have faith that the elections are not fixed.

This is why many now say that America has gone over to faith based voting. We are just expected to have faith in whatever the machines say even when no one in government is checking unless someone demands a recount, and then of course, our governors want to try to make sure that the recount either does not happen or that it is rigged to match the magical official results spit out by the secret vote counting computers.

A couple of officials from Ohio were caught rigging the 2004 Presidential election recount and were convicted, but a bureaucrat in a black robe let them go free. Those bureaucrats have to look out for each other. We just need to have faith that those machines that they are using to count our votes in secret aren’t rigged to keep us from throwing them out of office. Just trust them, they wouldn’t cheat again, would they?

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