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Heidi Stevenson | Вы могли думать вы имеет право участия в выборах. Вы могли думать ваши отсчеты вотума. Вы могли думать что будет проблема здесь или там, но что они будут исключениями. Вы могли думать что 2000 президентскими выборами была аберрация, в которой США. Верховный суд нарушил этичное и ухаживает прецеденты для того чтобы увенчать loser избрания, противопоставляя the will людей. Вы могли думать не может по возможности быть ongoing проблемой.

Вы могли очень уныло быть ошиблены.

Права участия в голосовании находятся под систематическим нападением в Соединенных Штатах. Методы вклюают:

* Outright disenfranchisement.

* Переключение вотума в машинах избрания.

* Неоказание для того чтобы позволить публику увидеть как вотумы подсчитаны.

* Польза народных судов политическими партиями и корпорации ниспровергнуть закон.

* Польза угроз тяжбы крупными корпорациями против наличн-связанных местных правительств предотвратить их от рассматривать голосовать машины.

Каждое одно не могло показаться как главная проблема, но после того как я принято совместно, оно ясно что будет скоординированное нападение на права участия в выборах американских гражданах'.

Flipping вотума

Было оглушено Брэд Friedman следует за проблемой на леты, но выравнивает его когда она случилась к ему когда он проголосовал в Лос-Анджелес во время избрания 3-ье июня California:

«Право перед моими очень глазами, компьютер-напечатанным ballot произведенным голосуя системой, котор я использовал, неправильно заполненными внутри пузырями для 4 гонок я голосовал cIn. Имел я, котор будут неимоверно тщательно, после того как ballot был напечатан - вне, painstakingly сравнить было напечатано к я фактическ проголосовал для, я не имел бы никогда известное мои вотумы давался к выбранным, котор я не проголосовал для.»

По мере того как Friedman пошло дальше point out, если он был слеп, то не было бы дороги знать что его вотумы были изменены. 40 процентов его вотумов были flipped. Из-за его prominence, машина, котор он проголосовал дальше была quarantined. No one докучали проверить вне остальнои машин на том месте полинга или другого из такого же типа.

Арретировать избирателя

Правомерно избиратели правоподобны для того чтобы проголосовать для «неправильного» выбранные определены и систематически исключены от кренов избирателя. 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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