by Kent Welton
March 28, 2008
"Its not the voting that’s democracy, it’s the counting"
Alfred Emanuel Smith
SNIP...We must realize that machine voting corruption is the one new way, and the last fail-safe way, that ruling elites have to subvert democracy and maintain their oligarchy. If assassinations fail and corporate control of media and polls do not do the trick, and those nasty "populists" continue to gain favor, then there is only one way to retain power and control over the many and that is with privately owned and controlled voting machines – in short, a new counting control process made in heaven for fascists and dictators around the world.
So now, along with their corporate control of the media, the central bank, and the "Free trade" regime, they have completed the coup and added voting machines and election processes. You’re dreaming if you think you live in any kind of effective democracy today. What we have is what they’ve long been after – a "managed" democracy. Indeed, they now manage every aspect of "our" lives in this golden age of neo-slavery... wherein every important decision is removed from the people, and our representatives are either too dumb, scared, or bought off to do anything about it and, worse, we lack a national initiative process to regain power over our own country and future.
All of this is to say we need to recover our paper-ballot voting systems in order to have voting integrity, honesty, believable democracy, and we need our own representatives to give us the choice in this most important matter. Democracy can only come into being and proceed from the ground up, and so derive its authority from the most basic unit of society – the city. How did your city choose its voting processes... or did they?
Kent Welton
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_kent_wel_080328_did_you_elect_your_v.htm