Forget about 2008, Focus now on 2006 and e-voting fraud!!

[hertopos]

To People who are skeptical about the value of investigation e-voting fraud, look it is not about 2004 anymore. It is about 2006. If we won't change the tide in 2006, we can be lost for quite long time. If you remember, in 2002, there were already significant amount of exit poll - published poll disparity. It is only getting worse if you don't do anything about it.

Right now, the two most important issues are:

1. Expose e-voting fraud. Remember the goal is not to put Kerry back to the white house. (Make no mistake, as you see in my attached short essay, I believe Kerry won. I just think that focus may hider the most important goal. ) The goal is to remove any e-voting machine that has no paper trail and re-establish the credibility of exit poll.

2. Join local activist group and start working for state and congressional races in 2006. This is how Christian Coalition took over Republican Party. DNC has been neglecting many state and congressional level race for too long. We don't need to waste our time on 'Democrat platform'. We can even have pro-life candidate if such a person also support Healthcare, sex-education, and good child-support system. Dem can also work with Green since we don't need DNC. They don't care. I recommend DFA since they already have started this focused activity.

Lastly, I attach my short essay 'Rage'; this is about why I left Japan and how I feel about this election.

Hertopos

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Have you ever wonder why in all near future movies, there were no middle class and media's control everywhere. All media personalities look so perky and clean.

I knew media has lost its trustworthiness long before this election; however, my distrust deepened ever so profoundly through the night of November 2nd. I feel like I aged at least 10 years overnight.

I refocused fairly quickly by reading some of very early crucial posts on DU, including one by SoCalDemocrat and Skinner. The information about DFA also gave me a channel to act out. ( I went to their local meetup on November 3rd. This was the very first time I actually attend a political grass root activist meeting. I am still a resident alien but I am planning to become an American citizen soon despite the fact many Americans are thinking about leaving this country.)

Do you have any idea why Japanese people lost their interest in politics very long time ago? Because, the system was fixed long time ago. How you may ask? The way precincts are organized. In Japan, rural residents have enormous power to control the election outcome to the point demographically dominant urban residents feel powerless. At the same time, LDP control their rural base working on their ignorance and greed. (Japanese farmers cannot survive without huge subsidies.) Yes, after the bubble burst in 1985, there were a short period of Socialist administration and LDP break up. However, there is no 'grass root' activists’ base in Japan. In late 60's there were a small window of opportunity but it never materialized fully and eventually vanished. This is one of the reason I came to United State where people actually participate politics so that people can work for a better world. Make no mistakes there are increasing number of Japanese people who are very interested in causes. In fact, more and more younger generations are into NPOs, many of them, international organizations.

Now, back to this election…
Recall how most of November 2nd was like. Remember some MSNBC talking head slipped her/his tongue to call Kerry a soon to be president? Remember Zogby prediction? Remember Kennedy congratulated Kerry? Remember Hannity almost cried? Remember Tucker Carlson said Kerry won? Did you forget everything? Remember we were talking about what we should drink? Someone even asked about which Champaign is good?

We all knew and agreed that Kerry was going to win because of exit poll.

Once for all, let's make this 100% clear!! Exit poll is very accurate to the point it won't predict the wrong side to win. I have a PhD in Mathematics and I used to work in data modeling company. Well, exit poll is so accurate that in some cases it is actually used as a tool to verify the published results. (There is a small article about this in NYT yesterday. It was posted on DU but I did not have time to find a link.)

Now I start understanding where my rage is really coming from. As a scientist/ mathematician, we do analysis and conclude the result based on data and generally accepted theories. How could media discredit exit poll itself just because it may expose Republican fraud? All these media whores, who have been relying on exit polls for long time to predict the result until 2000, can say ‘exit poll is inaccurate'? How dare you denounce the well established scientific method just because it won’t fit in your corporate portfolio?

Well, I should not be surprised since Bush has been putting ‘his scientists’ left and right into committees and academies to get his ‘scientific result’.

I remember that I said 'but exit poll is right' when I first hard about CBS's 'mistake' in 2000. I was not quite sure what was going on with recount. However, I later learn what really happened in Florida. In 2000, voting fraud was done most at the level of sending out registration by manipulating database query.

People use Nazi Germany to describe * administration. In my opinion, this country is heading back to Mediaeval Age and theocracy, where science no longer matter, where our supreme court would become our 21st century Inquisition.

Unlike some DUers, I don’t feel anger towards most of people who voted for Bush because most of them would be treated even worse than most of us by Bush. Remember blue states are always helping red states economically. I just feel profound sorrow for them because they are so misinformed. Call me elitist if you like but sometimes the fact is just plain and simple.

I taught College level math for 8 years. Through those 8 years, there are so many adult who don’t understand the concept of theory, regardless of generally accepted scientific theory or mathematical theory. Any topics other than ‘pure moral value issues’ ( by the way gay issue is not a moral issue since it is already proved people are born gay, not by choice), I have enough reason to call them very misinformed.

Frankly speaking, I don’t want to hear anymore doubt about ‘massive e-voting fraud committed’. It is possible that Bush might have won popular vote thought most likely by such a huge margin. At the same time, Kerry won the electro votes as exit poll predicted.

We won. We won. We won.

Since the system itself is now high jacked, we are forced to prove our ‘theory’!! And make no mistake, we will.

Hertopos
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[a new day]

1. That's my focus, too, Hertopos

How the secretaries of state across the country have allowed these cracker-box machines to take over the vote count is a reason to run opponents asap. Whether they have been ignorant or complicit, they deserve to be out.

Even here in Washington state, where Bev Harris lives, BBV is a problem I will be addressing.

[goclark]

2. Thank you for telling us what you will be doing

That is the input we need right now.

Let's get the word out now about this Fraud stuff.

[hertopos]

4. I think people start seeing the importance of e-voting fraud.

AS I repeated again and again, if and when system is fixed, Democrat will become a perpetual minority and yonger voters will lost interest in politics. Once you let that happen, it is over. It is so important that it is very frustrating.

Hertopos

[cheshire]

3. Well written, I agree, we've been hijacked. What to do know is of the most

importance. Everyone knows Bush is a thief and a cheat. How to prove it is the question.

[a new day]

5. The proof is getting the system cleaned up

We've been snookered, what will come out of challenging this year's election is focus on the issue. We have to be careful to only go as far as the evidence takes us, and I don't think it will take us to a President Kerry.

But, if the GOP gets a super majority in 2006, we may as well become activists for our favorite charities. Politics will be for, literally, true believers.

[cheshire]

7. I desagree, if we lay down and take this we are the problem. We need stren

gth among ourselves. Weakness is what happened in 2000. I say we fight, with wisdom and facts. We can't let them continue to rule or we will become Naze Germany, Africa, Iraq, and then the terrorist will truly win.

[demwing]

6. it is NOT too late for 2004

We have time to prove our point and reverse the trend NOW. Why wait until 2 years from now?

[a new day]

8. You know, in addition to all arms of the government

They control the military during a time that has been sold as a time of war. The pols have put their tails in, they won't make a murmur.

Speak out about the 2004 election, sure. But, making sure future elections are clean is where the work is.

[hertopos]

9. I know it's not late; however, right now the media

is completely high jacked.

As a marketing strategist (that’s my current day time job), I am a realist. Losing 2006 is not an option even at the cost of giving up 2004. To get some media attention, we should tone down about potential reversal of election result.

Once we have a much larger momentum, we can talk about that possibility. It is more important to make media talk about the fundamental flaw of e-voting machine than Kerry elected at this point. My position is purely strategic. I just believe that losing 2006 is not an option.

Back to local election. In marketing, there is an idea of fair share. For the argument sake let the fair share of democrat to be 49% of population. The question is do we have a fair share of market? Currently, the answer is no. We have less than 49% of senators and congress. This implies it is very likely to gain fair share by introducing additional marketing efforts.

There are many red states of which popular vote result are more like 47-49% Kerry. This means, we have a lot of room to work to reestablish our fair share.

To gain momentum in congressional races, state races become increasingly important since some of Republican high jacked state legislatures are redistricting frantically to their advantage.

This is why I no longer care about what DNC think. This is why I became a member of local DFA on November 3rd. If you prefer green, you can be an activist in Green. Just focus on local election and try to work together with local Dem activists.

Bush does not have any mandate even if popular vote results are true.

Hertopos