Declaration
ELECTORAL REFORM
It's possible that the elections would have gone the same way, even without all the vote fraud, suppression, and voter intimidation which was reported. But what does it say about a system where tens of thousands of complaints were made, where only urban poor, blacks and liberal college students report standing in line for up to eleven hours while white suburban voters were unaffected by the misallocation of voting machines, where voting lists were purged, where voters were directed to the wrong precincts after waiting hours in line, only to receive provisional ballots which were later thrown out. Greg Palast and Rev. Jesse Jackson calculate that as many as two million voters were disenfranchised through various means in the 2004 election. Black voters were eleven times more likely than Whites to have their votes thrown out. Statistically speaking, this could not have been an accident. This is shocking. We are outraged. Do you hear anyone talking about it? Why not? Are we so jaded that this is just politics as usual? How heartbreaking !
Free and fair elections are the foundation of our democratic way of life. We need to restore our trust in the electoral process. Without confidence in the the system, we lose confidence in the legitimacy of our elected officials and this puts the whole political process at risk. We propose basic, far-reaching electoral reform to strengthen electoral integrity. Reform must be in place before the primaries for the 2008 elections. That is our goal. That is why we are contacting you. But first, we need to educate our citizens about has occurred in the last two elections, alternative solutions to the problems, and the need for a ballot with a paper trail. The mainstream press has dropped the ball on this, to their utter shame. The only way to achieve this is through a national grassroots campaign of education.Ensuring universal voting rights needs to be of concern to every
American regardless of political affiliation.
Goal
We need a nationwide educational campaign to explore voting irregularities and various voting methods.
Our ultimate goal is to enable easy and universal access to voting, using an accurate and verifiable system. This will restore voting rights to Blacks and the urban poor who were disproportionately disenfranchised as well as minimizing the tossed-out votes.
Recommendations
1) Require a paper trail
2) Create a National Presidential Voting Holiday.
3) Secretary of State must be impartial, unbiased and non-partisan (i.e. not a member of election campaign team)
4) Open source code for electronic voting machines.
5) Support new legislation to close the loopholes adversely affecting voter civil rights.
6) Implement current technology to dramatically reduce the possibility of systematic vote fraud (Two Pass Voting)
Conclusion
If we cannot trust our voting system then we cannot trust our democracy. We ask you to join us in helping to forge a just election system.
For those who received this in a printed format this blog is at http://counteveryvote.blogspot.com/
CountEveryVote@gmail.com

36 Comments:
A site like this is well overdue. Great job! Bring on the comments! A dialog and debate will only strengthen us. Remember free speech? Let's get started. I'm all ears.
this is a much needed blog. 2000 and 2004 were fraudulent elections
I think that the issue that you guys are not facing is that the American public will not, indeed, cannot accept these facts. The facts, clear as they are, overwhelmed by the innate patriotism, the naive belief that America is eternally democratic and free.
Cranbrook's point is a fair one but pessimistic. We have to believe that change is possible otherwise we are left with a dismal vision of an America bereft of true democracy with Republican (or democratic) administrations totally beholden to corporations and a public manipulated by media and Republican partisan electronic voting machine companies
Keep up the good fight.
Thanks David of Maryland. It is indeed a good fight for all the things that Bush claims to be fighting for in Iraq that we need at home
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This should be part of the social studies curriculum at the primary schools throughout the country. After all, we studied the constitution as children and this "count every vote" is the bulwark what this country has been founded on. Not only has this been the mainstay for America but this is what sets us apart from a monarchy. Every vote does count and every vote needs to be counted properly. The battle cry, "No taxation without representation," holds that not only do we have representation in Congress, but we have the ability to choose our local and state officials and of course to choose our President. In order to have that representation we have the responsibility, the duty and the freedom to express our political preference at the voting booth. And in doing so, we want and should demand that our votes be properly counted.
K.T.
Thanks K.T.
I work for a pharmaceutical company. "Big pharma" as they are known colloquially has 850 full time lobbyists in Washington. that is more than one for each senator and congressmen. as one of my friends said "They get to vote every day. We get to vote once every two years". We have to make sure at the bare minimum that every vote is counted.
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