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Por Heidi Stevenson | Você pôde pensar que você tem a direita votar. Você pôde pensar de suas contagens do voto. Você pôde pensar de que há um problema aqui ou lá, mas de que são as exceções. Você pôde pensar de que as 2000 eleições presidenciais eram uma aberração, em que os ESTADOS UNIDOS. A corte suprema violated ético e corteja precedents para coroar o loser da eleição, opondo a vontade dos povos. Você pôde pensar que não pode possivelmente ser um problema ongoing.

Você pôde muito sadly ser confundido.

As direitas votando estão sob o ataque sistemático nos Estados Unidos. As técnicas incluem:

* Disenfranchisement Outright.

* Switching do voto em máquinas da eleição.

* Recusa para permitir que o público v como os votos são contados.

* Uso das cortes de pessoa por partidos políticos e corporaçõs para subvert a lei.

* O uso de ameaças do lawsuit por corporaçõs grandes de encontro ao dinheiro-prendeu com correias governos locais para impedir que examinem votar máquinas.

Cada não pôde parecer como uma edição principal, mas feito exame junto, está desobstruído que há um ataque coordenado direitas nos cidadãos americanos' votar.

Lançar do voto

O Brad Friedman tem seguido o problema por anos, mas nivela-o stunned quando lhe aconteceu quando votou em Los Angeles durante a eleição de junho 3o Califórnia:

“Direito antes de meus olhos very, a cédula computador-impressa produzida pelo sistema que votando eu me usava, bolhas incorretamente preenchidas para quatro das raças eu estava votando dentro. Tive eu não sido incredibly cuidadoso, depois que a cédula foi imprimida - para fora, para comparar painstakingly o que foi imprimido a o que eu votei realmente para, eu nunca saberia que meus votos estavam dados aos candidatos que eu não votei para.”

Porque Friedman foi sobre indicar, se fosse cego, não haveria nenhuma maneira saber que seus votos estiveram mudados. Quarenta por cento de seus votos foram lançados. Por causa de seu prominence, a máquina que tinha votado sobre quarantined. Ninguém incomodaram-se verificar para fora o descanso das máquinas nesse lugar da votação ou de outras do mesmo tipo.

Prender do eleitor

Legitimate eleitores quem são prováveis votar para o “errado” os candidatos são identificados e excluídos sistematicamente dos rolos do eleitor. Different techniques are used, but one documented by reporter Greg Palast tells of one method.

Before the 2004 election, military personnel who came from predominantly black neighborhoods were targeted. The Republican National Committee sent them letters addressed “Do Not Forward”. Most, if not all, of the addressees were serving their country in foreign lands. Lists were drawn up of the names on the letters that had been returned as undeliverable. The lists were sent to the RNC. These soldiers had been “caged”.

Their voting registrations were challenged, based on the returned mail. Once their names had been removed from the voting rolls — without any attempts to locate and inform them — they lost the right to vote in the next election, whether they had returned home and gone to the polls or they had sent absentee ballots.

Through voter caging and other techniques, over half a million voters were disenfranchised during the 2004 election. The vast majority of those who were disenfranchised by caging were black military personnel.

Lack of Transparency in Vote Counting

In the recent June 3rd election in Monterey, California, two election observers were harassed and prevented from observing the process and the equipment used for tabulating votes. From the first, when they formally requested access, citing the California code that specifies the rules for observation — which quite clearly gives the right to check out all phases of the election, along with all computer and tabulating equipment — they were stonewalled.

In spite of the attempts to stop them, Valerie Lane and Brian Rothenberger were able to see obviously illegal activities and clear indications that it would be easy to tamper with the vote count. They were stalled, ordered to leave, and threatened with arrest.

The second article in this series will discuss the specifics of how Mr. Rothenberger and Ms. Lane were prevented from doing precisely what the law — and democracy — requires.

Lawsuit Threat

In New Jersey’s Union County, paper records of the number of voters in the recent primary election did not match the results produced by Sequoia Voting Systems’ machine printouts. Naturally, the County Clerk, Joanne Rajoppi, wanted the problem investigated. The Constitutional Officers Association of New Jersey, an organization of state sheriffs, county clerks, and other similar officials, concurred, calling for an independent review. They planned to have it done by a Princeton University computer scientist who has experience with voting machines.

It isn’t going to happen. Sequoia claims, without any proof, that the errors were the result of errors by poll workers — an interesting concept, considering it’s never happened before. Using double-speak without a hint of embarrassment, they say that they “welcome all such responsibly executed review activities.” How that can be done, though, they don’t say — but they aren’t going to let Union County do an investigation.

Sequoia threatened a lawsuit against Union County, claiming that an independent investigation would violate their licensing agreement. The county has no option but to capitulate. The cost of defending such a lawsuit is prohibitive for them.

Left in the balance are the voters who have been disenfranchised.

A Chilling Subversion of Our Democracy

The implications for American democracy are chilling. A concerted and systematic effort has been underway to prevent the will of the people from being heard. The very basis of the governance of our nation is at extreme risk.

Thomas Jefferson wrote: “Should things go wrong at any time, the people will set them to rights by the peaceable exercise of their elective rights.” He had faith in the people’s ability to make good decisions through voting. What would he think now, when that most basic of freedoms — the one at the heart of our society — is becoming a ghost, nothing more than the image of what it was meant to be?

Alexander Hamilton said that a republic’s right to vote “ought to stand foremost in the estimation of the law.” Now, the right to vote is becoming little more than a shadow cast behind the actions of those who cast their votes into a void. Increasingly, it exists more in form than in substance.

Different techniques that have been used — and continue to be used — will be discussed in depth in upcoming articles. The only way to stop the theft of democracy is through awareness of what’s happening. If you know that you’re a potential target of vote theft, then you can protect both yourself and the future of the nation.

References

The Brad Blog, by Brad Friedman, (http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6043) , (http://www.blackboxvoting.org/)

Black Box Voting, (http://www.blackboxvoting.org/)

“Buffalo Soldiers Scrubbed by Secret GOP Hit List”, by Greg Palast, ((http://www.gregpalast.com/massacre-of-t…)

“Plan for voting machine probe dropped after lawsuit threat”, by Diane C. Walsh, Real-Time News, ((http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2008/0…)

“Sequoia Threatens Lawsuit Over E-Voting Machine Review”, by K.C. Jones, Information Week, ((http://www.informationweek.com/news/man…)

About the author

* Heidi Stevenson, BSc, DIHom, FBIH
* Fellow, British Institute of Homeopathy
* Gaia Therapy (http://www.gaia-therapy.com)
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* The author is a homeopath who became concerned with medically-induced harm as a result of her own experiences and those of family members. She says that allopathic medicine is the arena that best describes the motto, “Buyer beware.”
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* Iatrogenic disease is illness, disability, and death caused by medical practice. It is common, resulting in huge costs to society and individuals. It’s possible - even common - to suffer an iatrogenic illness without realizing its source.
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* Heidi Stevenson provides information about medically-induced disease and disability, along with incisive well-researched articles on major issues in the modern world, so members of the public can protect themselves.

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