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Voter Fraud?
How else do you explain Bush's increased popularity? Do you really think that he is more popular than he was in 2000? See here or here (where many counties in Florida show that up 70% of registered democrats voted repuplican) or here or here and here (where some counties in Ohio had more votes than registered voters) decide fer yerself what that smell is coming from Florida & Ohio.

CYBERBUSS says save Democracy and calls fER reforms, if you agree sign the voter reform petition:

• Get rid of these 'black box" voting machines

  1.  The exit polls in Ohio showed that Kerry got more votes.  Everyone knows that exit polls are almost always exceptionally accurate.  They were in Florida 2000. Ohio should be double checked.
  
  2.  The 'no-receipt' black boxes seem to have been in more democratic counties than GOP counties.  I have not real verification of this, but it is what I heard.
  
  3.  Many voters reported that their machines went out when voting and had to be re=programmed.  see www.blackboxvoting.com
  
  4.  The three makers of these voting machines (including diebold which has had lawsuits filed against them in the 2002 election) are anything but non-partisan. In fact it is well known that they are blatant GOP supporters.  One O'Nell even swore that he would 'deliver Ohio'.
  
  5.  We already know that presidential elections in the past have been rigged in some counties.  It is commonly acknowledged that both JFK and Nixon rigged a few counties here and there.
  
  6.  When you go to Burger King you get a paper receipt, why the hell can't you get one when you vote for the so called leader of the free world?
  

• We want a voter ranking system, where like many other countries and the way voting for Sports MVPs is done, you vote for your 1st, 2nd, and 3rd choices. This way you can vote for your favorite candidate without hurting other candidates. It gives third parties a chance to campaign without being blamed for effecting elections for the worse. Or at the very least we could have a run-off election of the top 2 candidates (which is what they do for San Francisco mayor elections).

• A more representative electoral system:
  • The way it is now each state gets only 2 senators whether they have 35 million people or 500,000. Both North Dakota and California have equal pull in the senate.
  • Rural states not only get the same amount of senators as populous states, but they get more electoral votes per person (since you get one electoral vote for each state senator and congress person) . Do the math -- California gets 55 electoral votes and has 35 million people. Thats 0.0000015 electoral votes per person. Wyoming has 500,000 peeps and gets 3 electoral votes. That's 0.000006 electoral votes per person. That's almost 4 times as much electoral power. Does that seem fair to you?
  • The trend of redistricting in states like Texas give Republicans an unfair advantage in the House. Politicians are choosing voter districts, rather than voter districts choosing politicians. Since the redistricting in Texas, 4 Democratic House seats were lost.

• A fairer, more informative media:
  • Voters cannot vote for the right candidates if they are ill-informed. Most Americans get their news from cable TV.
  • 6 companies own all the cable TV networks in the entire country. They decide which programs get aired, which ads get played, and which news gets reported. Antitrust laws were set up to keep the media diversified. The Bush and Reagan Regimes have dissolved the antitrust laws in the media industry as well as many other industries. Monopolies are back and legal.

• Supreme court judges should be elected by the people not appointed by presidents. Supreme court judges do not reflect the American people's values.
  • Supreme court judges are appointed by presidents and stay in office for life. That's right our top justice officials are selected not elected and just like Kings and Queens remain for life. How 18th century is that?

• Election campaign reforms please:

  • For fair elections all teams/parties must be have the same amount of money to campaign with. All sports, but baseball have a salary cap to keep the competition fair. Why can't political campaigns have salary caps too? We all know that money can buy a lot of things. Well the party with the most money is gonna reach the most people and is most likely to win. Every year the Republicans, like the Yankees, have the highest campaign budget, therefore an unfair advantage.

• No more lying political ads:
• It is well known that politicians lie. It is well known that campaigning with lies is an effective way to make your opponent look bad and divert the public from real issues. Politicians are not held to their lies and the first amendment protects them and allows them to lie.
• McDonald's (nor anybody selling anything) cannot lie in their ads, why should political candidates be able to? You meant that comercial advertisers are held to higher integrity standards than our politicians? yep.
• It is well known that Bush ran ads against Ann Richards, McCain and Kerry that were far from true. People believed those ads and often don't discover the truth until after the election.

Lastly, I do not understand how they could think that Ohio was mathimatically impossible to win less than 24 hours after the polls closed.  As far as I understand, Bush was ahead by 150,000 votes and there were 170,000 provisional ballots yet to be counted and an unknown amount of absentee ballots.  I have a friend who's mom volunteers at a voting station in one town in NY and she counted 15,000 absentee ballots.  Wouldn't the entire state of Ohio have at the very least 10 times the number as one town in NY?  In the time it would take to count these votes more about Ohio could be learned.

 

CONCLUSION Well we all know that getting anything or anyone to change is next to impossible. The easiest thing to change is yerself. The fact is that yer dolla counts more than yer vote (unless perhaps you live in Wyoming).

So vote more with your dolla in the next four years. My next vehicle will be a deisel, and I am committing myself to making and exploring bio-deisel. I have three friends that currently make their own bio-deisel from used vegetable oil. Some run their cars on it others run generators to produce all their electricity at home. Any restaurant with a fryer has to pay to get rid of their old grease. So offer to get rid of it for them. Bio-deisel is a renewable resource that has an unlimited supply. As long as their are vegatables there can be bio-deisel. Also, it polutes less than burning fossil fuels. As Willie Nelson states, you could leave the car on and sleep in the garage and the only thing that will happen to you is you may gain weight. Laslty, and the best thing about it is one of my friends boasts that he makes his bio-deisel for about $0.78 per gallon. Since I spend about $3,000 per year on gasoline. It is possible that I could deny Chevron from $100,000 in sales over my lifetime, not to mention inspire others to do the same. www.biodiesel.org

Well its time now more than ever to do something different.