No more tolerating this "no harm, no foul" attitude towards vote theft. Can I get an Amen?

[eridani]

Yes, we won in SPITE of disenfranchisement, voting machine "glitches" that favored Repukes 95% of the time. active voter suppression, etc. Just like in 2008, whereupon too many Dems lost interest in election integrity, which is one reason why we had to deal with exactly the same crap this year.

This shit needs to stop NOW! Who is to say whether 2016 (or even 2014) will be more like 2008/2012 or more like 2000/2004?

Before I retired as an active chemist, I had a client report to me that our week 33 results were exactly the same as our week 32 results. It turned out that we were doing larger sample batches, and the program that transferred the raw data to the system that did the calculations had a buffer overflow problem which it responded to by spitting out the results from the previous sample set. As it turned out, there was not much difference between the real result and the initial wrong results, so no process engineer made a bad decision as a result of the mistake. Were we therefore allowed to just say "no harm, no foul?" FUCKING HELL NO!! We processed results in smaller batches until we got a software patch. Even though the glitch didn't cause harm that one time, if left in place it might have caused serious problems down the line.

This is the attitude we need to have toward all the screwups that were reported this year. Other threads have mentioned Andy Stephenson. I'm sure he'd be happy that we won, but he would also give us a strong talking-to about ENDING this nonsense permanently.

[rainy]

1. Absolutely amen

[Monk06]

2. I said it before on other threads. The control of the electoral system must be taken out of the

hands of the state governments. A federal electoral commission should be created and empowered to formulate consistent, nationwide rules regarding election rules and balloting and have the resources to enforce those rules.

Also the ballot apparatus, be it electronic or paper balloting must be taken out of the hands of private companies who are overwhelmingly Republican supporters and have a direct stake in corrupting the electoral process.

You should have a system like we have in Canada and other countries which follow the parliamentary model. With few exceptions British Commonwealth countries have fair and reliable electoral institutions in place and fraud is virtually unknown.

Private business has no business in the electoral process.

[eridani]

5. Yes--time to start asking our members of Congress about this

Is Rush Holt still in? He's a scientist who has previously shown interest in election integrity.

[GETTINGTIRED]

3. Amen

No more suppression..its WRONG....punish those.....(Huston) who are so disgusting in there attempts...

[TeamsterDem]

4. Absolutely you can get an amen. and a volunteer. nt