(US) 1/06 - The Principle Of Common D...

Author Message   Robert K. Joyce Voting Rights Forum Participant Username: Blues Post Number: 6 Registered: 01-2005 Best of Black Box? N/A Votes: 0 (A keeper?) Posted on Sunday, January 22, 2006 - 2:55 am:        {1}The old, worn-out practices of "getting out the vote" just cannot possibly work anymore. Certainly not in this age of centralized computer voting. Some hacker in a fascist compound in Idaho can just push a few keys and make it so that the candidate you just worked your butt off for will lose by a 1% margin. Unless elections are decentralized and decomputerized, we shall not see democracy again. The votes in every precinct must be hand marked, hand counted, and announced before a body of randomly selected jurors within the precincts, before they are added into a larger pool of votes, or added in at the state level. You could run for your local school board or housing authority board to be in a position to block voting at these facilities if the elections are not decentralized and decomputerized. Of course, it is likely that the fascists will use the courts to override such maneuvers. In the final analysis, it seems unlikely that democracy can be restored via decentralization and decomputerization unless people organize to stop the de-democratization process by direct means. We must re-assert the fundamental Principle of Common Democracy in our nation. It is precisely this tacit principle upon which every other value in our Constitution is founded. Without this Great Principle, there can be no Constitution, laws, or common laws in the nation. I intend to show up at my local Town Meeting to actively begin advocating for proactive enforcement of this Founding Principle of Democracy, which cannot be allowed to be vitiated by the introduction of a new centralized computer voting subversion. We must hold rallies to insist that the votes in every precinct be hand marked, hand counted, and announced before a body of randomly selected jurors within the precincts, before they are added into a larger pool of votes, or added in at the state level. Town governments must be forced to hold real elections -- yes real, decentralized, decomputerized elections -- on the day just prior to the so-called "official elections" Quite obviously, the Principle of Common Democracy demands that we act on this now. There is no other way to restore freedom and democracy to our nation at this juncture.{/1}   Catherine Ansbro Frequent Voting Rights Forum Participant Username: Catherine_a Post Number: 1558 Registered: 12-2004 Best of Black Box? N/A Votes: 0 (A keeper?) Posted on Sunday, January 22, 2006 - 3:21 am:        Robert, That's a great point that standing as a candidate in a local election can give a person a greater range of options to challenge the system. Thanks for the reminder.

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