One-third of the nation will be voting on Direct Recorded Electronic (DRE)—that’s progress, so from a technological standpoint as many as 66 percent of the votes will be tangible. Now, take two-thirds of the U.S. voting-age population, subtract 100 million who don’t register, so take 2/3 of one half and you get one third of the voting-aged population in this country. Now subtract all those souls whom we’ve eliminated by the other facts listed above and what do you get?
Several rich people, several educated people, both categories able to speak up for themselves.
Now add some back, since despite themselves DREs hand in some votes and some of these are accurate.But subtract some since votes are known to jump to the candidate the machine is programmed to favor and some more . . . Wait a minute, let’s go somewhere else.
How many of the few voters left will go Independent and stay that way, voting for Ralph Nader or Bob Barr or writing in Ron Paul or Howdy Doody? There are those in every election but this year, since Lou Dobbs has fetishized Independent politics, more people are feeling free to stay undecided and waiting to be pandered to or otherwise convinced.
Their's is the power, in the swing states: Pennsylvania (the pits this year, the nadir), Ohio and Florida as usual, New Mexico, Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, Missouri, Virginia, Colorado, and New Mexico--more states than ever.
And allow North Dakota some credit for not requiring voter registration and Oklahoma for having nothing to do with vendor interactions and interference on Election Day if not throughout the year. And those places in Oregon and Washington State that vote by mail successfully. . . .
And if you happen to be an expatriate or in the military or a vet hospitalized in a veteran facility or both of the latter two,God help them,
God help John Q.,
And, Lord have mercy, God help us too!
Don’t forget caging. That overlaps with some of the above with some life of its own.
Then there’s intimidation and other phenoms I will categorize as Republicanisms, like leafleting or phoning misinformation to you know who.
Then there are inadequately trained poll workers, inadequately trained voters, lost paper ballots, kidnapped paper ballots, bad weather, police intimidation of you know who.There’s no ending this with a rhyme—sorry.
There’s no ending this, period, this list.
But there is a dream to end all of it. And then, for no partisan reasons at all.
But only the fact that the people have asserted their will,
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