Don't vote, it just encourages them

I don't recommend doing this at all, but it does contain some bitter truth.
Fair voting should not be a partisan issue, Republicans and Democrats
should demand free and fair voting, and should unite to investigate any
allegations of voter fraud, no matter which party benefits. At the very
heart of election transparency is the existence of at least a "paper
trail," or some way to verify that votes cast are counted properly. I'm
not talking about verifying tallies or summation results, I'm talking about
verification of individual ballots cast. This is impossible with some of
the electronic voting machines that are in use now (even though ATMs easily
and instantly provide such a receipt, and they handle billions of
transactions) and some of the "tally" type machines are also similarly
flawed. It is necessary that such equipment not be employed, at all.
Here's what can be done. Storage places for such equipment can be
picketed, just like a labor strike, but done by American voters instead of
unions. Americans can demand such voting machines be destroyed, or at
least that they not be employed in elections. Unions (such as the
Teamsters) can refuse to transport such machines anywhere, either from the
factory to their destinations right on down to local distribution. I don't
wish the employees at Diebold or ESS or like companies any ill, but voters
can also picket those companies, and refuse to do business with any other
companies (such as banks) that continue to do business with them. Don't
know where the machines are? Web pages can show photos of the machines,
and report that there are so many at such and such a courthouse. Picketing
local courthouses (or where ever the machines might be found) will make it
financially untenable for any locality to keep or use such machines. It's
a way to fight back. It's a way to preserve voting without depending on
elected representatives (or appointed, or whatever) to do the job. Demand
free and fair elections. Demand that technologies that make a recount
impossible NOT be used. It is your duty as an American.

Galen Hekhuis NpD, JFR, GWA ghekhuis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
We'll cross that bridge when it rears its ugly head
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