Election Reform

I'm delighted to see you here. Peace Patriot told me that I would find you here. She mentioned your presence here in response to my old DU adios post, http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2464344

What can we do now to prevent a recurrence?

I had thought that getting our states to return to punch card ballots would do some good but reading your take on the Dukakis/Bush race, I guess not.

I see in your second link below, Bob Fitrakis
"To protect ourselves from election fraud, we need to begin by barring private, partisan companies from secretly counting our vote. We need to return to what the rest of the democratic world does -- count ballots on paper with full transparency at the precinct level. Then, and only then, use the machines to report. Luckily, it is fairly easy to do.

Another thing we need to do is remove these companies from controlling the electrontic pollbooks. There's plenty of proof in Ohio and elsewhere that voters, particularly minority and poor voters who tend to vote Democratic, are being systematically purged from voting rolls.

The voting rights of U.S. citizens are under attack from multiple angles by Karl Rove and his cohorts. Instead of shrinking the electorate and uses databases to eliminate voters because they don't have the proper photo ID, we should -- state by state -- hopefully in the long run, make voting rights a universal constitutional right. A right that is protected and not subject to Jim Crow practices such as the legislation in the Ohio (House Bill 194) that prevents pollworkers from telling you if your voting in the right or wrong precinct line. We need to convince people that there's no real evidence of "voter" fraud, but there is evidence of vote rigging and election fraud.

Because of the work being done, key blogs like OpEdNews, Bradblog, TruthOut and others have picked it up and the story is at a tipping point and looks like its on the verge of going viral. It is being discussed all over the world".


I know this is a big question but hope you have time to respond at some point.

I have no headphones or speakers just at the moment but will soon, and will then listen to the first link listening especially for what we can do now.

Aloha.