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Want to eliminate election fraud? Try this…

“A Better Election System” By Paul Magill Smith 3-8-2K6
“To begin with, in the United States there must be a powerful demolition of the old political order: We need elections where all votes are cast and counted. The campaign against voter repression is the essential civil rights struggle of our time, even though most progressives don’t seem to realize it yet. Prevailing will require fundamental reform such as the introduction of nationwide vote-by-mail (the Oregon system). Without that, and also many relentless prosecutions, nothing else will be achieved”.---JAMES K. GALBRAITH March 30, 2006 “Taming Global Capitalism Anew"---(April 17, 2006 issue of The Nation Magazine)
James K. Galbraith, chair of the board of Economists for Peace and Security, teaches at the University of Texas and is senior scholar with the Levy Economics Institute

The latest round of corruption in our government stems from the biggest executive crime of all. In collusion with the Supreme Court our glorious president/dictator/tyrant “stole” the election of 2000, with another criminal (Tom DeLay) “stole” a majority in the house through re-districting, and with corporate henchmen in Diebold & Company “stole” another presidency in 2004. Whether you agree with the presidential election results or not there were statistical anomolies, and thousands of citizen complaints that should have required greater scrutiny & inquiry.
Since the 2000 presidential election our national coffers have been looted to the tune of trillions of dollars, and with almost three more years to go in this theocratic oligarchy there is still much more damage to come. Our financial ruin, through an unsustainable balance of trade deficit, massive fiscal deficits, and a consolidation of wealth in the hands of a few individuals & corporations, bodes ill for generations of Americans to come---IF there are generations to come after the effects of global warming, a state of perpetual global war, and depleted uranium have their way with us.
A bleak picture-yes-but there is cause for hope. Going under the assumption most Americans have a streak of common sense, and an inbred respect for ‘the rule of law’, the first step toward retrieving our now stolen democracy is restoring honesty to our electoral process. Accountability, verifiability, and transparency are not luxuries; they are necessities if democracy in America (the world) is to be viable.
With these considerations in mind I propose an entirely new election system for this country. It uses, for the most part, existing equipment & technology already in place throughout the entire country, and would only require the development of some software. Election expenses would be reduced, election theft would become a thing of the past, and national referendums on key issues would become a possibility. The ‘will of the people’ would become king, instead of the preferences of King George/Dick/Karl/Donald/ etc.
So here is the idea. Currently in the US there are 368,000 ATM machines. They are easy to use (even from a car), provide a paper trail, accessible by use of a card with security features, and very accurately keep track of billions of transactions every month (a 1% accuracy error, which is acceptable for most elections, would land bankers out of their jobs & very likely jailed).
OK, so the first part deals with voting at ATM’s, except when they are being used for elections they would become AVM’s (Automatic Voting Machines).
The issue of verifiability would be very simple also. Since each registered voter would receive their own magnetic credit-card type, individually numbered card (requiring a personalized identification number-PIN-to make it work), each voter would have a specific number, and security that they were the only one who had the secret code to access the AVM. Following an election their unique number, along with the way their vote was recorded would be published in the local paper & on the internet at a specific site. Since all the voter numbers could be placed in numerical order it would be easy to scan down the list to your number and verify your vote was cast for the person you wanted it to be.
If it was an election with candidates in a number of positions your vote would read as a multi-character number. An example would be 1324113 in which you voted for 7 different people for as many electable posts. The AVM would have given you a hard copy receipt to be used to verify against the posted list.
ATM’s are already linked to central computers, so collection of the total votes from all the machines should present very little problem. Election officials would be necessary at these institutions to verify all the votes were retrieved, but the elimination of officials at each precinct polling place would eliminate much of the costs of holding elections as with our current system. As a further dis-incentive to election fraud, caused by computer tampering, if a certain percentage or number of voters provide their AVM receipt to election officials, and their vote code doesn’t match that of the central computers, the election results are AUTOMATICALLY declared void, resulting in a new election.
Since I have only begun thinking & writing about this new system I am sure there are many details to be considered and worked out. The bottom line is the current election system is broken, with millions of Americans lacking confidence in the extant election process & results.
As the world’s oldest democracy, holding our ‘system’ up as a model for budding or want-to-be democracies around the globe, it behooves us to make sure our own system is the best we can possibly make it, and the one others will wish to emulate. “Do as I say” is not good enough. If America is to ‘talk the talk’ we must ‘walk the walk’ also.

Paul Magill Smith
2607 Towngate Ct.
Richmond, VA 23233
804-360-9382
Rockitz.org

Hopeless, hopeless, hopeless.

I don’t understand this idea that this article “Provides good examples of things to watch for and be aware when voting in the upcoming elections”.  What a wimpy approach.  After what happened in 2000, we knew what to look for, yet the repugs got away with it again, and the dems just rolled over silently.  No. Everyone who participated in any effort to make it more difficult or impossible for people to vote (or have their vote not counted) must be prosecuted, found guilty and put in jail.  Every f*cking one of them.  If any dems perpetrated fraud they have to be prosecuted too. This isn’t jaywalking that these people did.  It is a MAJOR FELONY.  That’s what we all should be demanding, daily, until it gets done.  Put pressure on the MSM, on congress, local election officials, on everybody to pursue this to the limit.

This is a must read!

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. makes his case very convincingly and anyone with the destinies of democracy at heart should demand official investigations.

But we have not seen any serious investigation on pre-war intelligence (guided) “failures” though there, too, evidence was clear.

The risible “watchdogs” of democracy (mainstream media) do everything but watching. Perhaps they are too busy nibbling fat, meaty bones to do their job.

One wonders just how much Americans are prepared to put up with obvious signs of failing democracy without voicing their outrage and their desire of truth.

Gosh, Rolling Stone, which used to be something a long, long time ago, pretends to break a story about something that’s already been reported in numerous places for several years? It just confirms their complete lack of courage, their corporate toad-licking, their sell-out mentality, their cultural lag and their irrelevance, which anyone who is remotely hip already figured out about a decade ago. Bleh. Line your birdcage with this unfascinating, unrevealing article. Why is truthdig even stroking their egos on this?

After reading this, I realize this is a bringing together of the odds and ends that have been discovered regrarding the premeditated, devious, conspiratorial (I digress) push to steal the 04 election.  I have read here and there over the past year and a half the information compiled by Mr. Kennedy.  Even though I had acquired some knowledge of these criminal actions before, I was overwhelmed to see it all together. 
One of the most sickening aspects of the movement to steal the election centers on the Secretary of State in Ohio.  Think his name is Blackwell.  This person is running for governor of Ohio with support from the lunatic Christian right.  He professes to be a rightous, devout Chistian and has demonstrated by his behaviors to be more akin to a sociopathic, thief and lier. “thous shalt not steal"..."thou shalt not lie.” He in an outright overt manner engaged in criminal behavior to assure his majesty Bush was elected.
He is now enjoying the fruits of his lawbreaking and loyalty to his majesty by being supported by the Bushites to run for governor.  Remember the racist bigot Haley Barbour.  He esentially did the same thing and was rewarded with the governership of Mississippii.
If one would look back in Hebrew history, one will discover that taking the Lords name in vein is not just G..D.... .  Taking the Lords name in vein is using him / her (GOD) for personal gain such as this bunch of (sorry, I can’t hold it back) ASSHOLES have done to gain political power. 
Here’s hoping Mr Blackwell et. al. get what they deserve on election day.  And as the Christians’ say on “judgment day.”
Remember Ghandi’s comment? “I like your Christ...but I don’t know about your Christians.”
Will

Waiting for the MSM to jump on this story. (Sound of soft whistling, drumming of fingernails on desk.)

Kennedy wrote a great article. Everyone should read it.  Provides good examples of things to watch for and be aware when voting in the upcoming elections.  The article really lays out how the Republicans denied people the right to vote in Ohio.

Keep an eye on California June 6 and in November.  Remember, California, like Florida and Ohio, has a Republican Governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and a Republican Secretary of State, Bruce McPherson, who was appointed by Schwarzenegger.