It's Not Too Early to Start Thinking About 2008

[BeFree]

And who the people are who will be registering voters and keeping an eye on the vote counting computers.

Who is it, exactly, that will count your vote? Probably the company called Election Systems and Software - ES&S. Or Diebold.

So how well do you know these people and these companies? You know, it is never to early to get familiar with the folks who control elections. And why wait until they get busy as heck with election stuff? Go downtown and get to know them as soon as you can.

After all, the vote you save may be your own.

[autorank]

1. It's not to early to start thinking of alternatives and general protests.

Congress has a tin ear on voting rights just like it does on Iraq. Public opinion on Iraq says pass a resolution cutting off funding - 60%. That's very radical. The support for dumping voting machines is equal to or greater than that, in all likelihood. Time to tell them to straighten up or get the hell out. Enough already. The Holt bill is not even readable by the vast majority of citizens. It's not that the people aren't smart, they are. The bill is riddled with technicalities and has frequent references to other legislation not included in the text; it's confusing unless you're an "insider." So after six solid years of major questions and work what do we have; a Democratic bill, probably losing Congressional Black Caucus support, that is a mess. Alliances, publicity, last ditch efforts. There are some cool alternatives out there that are very doable but the key point is lets start now, not later.

Good point.

[BeFree]

2. Yeah

Congress isn't gonna solve our problem, we are gonna have to solve it ourselves - at the local level, face-to-face, person-to-person.