Where the election is a fiction, the representation is a fiction also. Like will always produce like.
- Thomas Paine to the Citizens of the United States, January 29, 1803
The essential problem with the American republic today is that "the representation is a fiction" because our elections are fraudulent fiction. President Obama and the Congressmen running the United States do not really represent us, the American people. Our politicians are beholden to the people who put them in power, i.e. the people who own and control the electronic voting machine systems used across the United States.
The only way to peacefully restore the stolen sovereignty to the American people is to restore integrity and transparency to our elections. The widespread use of electronic voting machines is how our republic is stolen from us every time we hold elections. The easiest and surest way to get our nation back is to return to hand-counted paper ballots in every polling place across the United States.
The Constitution gives the states and counties the authority to determine the manner of voting. The citizens in every county need to be involved and present at the counting of the votes in every polling place to properly authenticate the tally. This is the absolute essential condition, the conditio sine qua non of an open and democratic election. If the people are not involved in the counting of the votes, the election is not authentic. It's that simple. A few hours spent counting votes is a small price (but the absolute minimum required) to pay for preserving our republic. {more}
From the local and state to the national elections there has always been a certain amount of vote fraud. Unscrupulous people conspired, money was passed, it happened. Even John Kennedy may have been elected thanks to the 'Chicago voting machine.'
Today's voting 'technology' forced upon us by the federal government makes things a little easier for those who want to fix an election, but that's not the only way to manipulate the vote.
With overwhelming support, my state of Tennessee passed the Voter Confidence Act which required a paper trail for the 2010 elections and even with federal money to implement it, it has been delayed. Why?
It’s never been clear why Republicans are so bent on delaying this law. It would eliminate the hazards of paperless, unverified electronic voting. In Tennessee, 93 of 95 counties use touch-screen machines with no paper trail to verify results. The Voter Confidence Act calls for replacing these by the 2010 elections with paper ballots to be marked by voters and then read by optical scanners–a system allowing for recounts and audits of the actual tallies. Some county election commissioners are against making the change because they’d have to buy paper ballots.
Common sense is to court voters, not create hurdles. I’ve said it before and I most likely will say it again, but why can I get a receipt at McDonald’s when I buy a Quarter Pounder and not one when I cast a vote for someone who can seriously change the world I live in politically? We have the knowledge to land a man on the moon, but a receipt or an option for a paper ballot for a vote is unheard of? {more}
Adding insult to injury is the fraud of the two party system. In the national elections, I'm hard pressed to find anyone in the dual headed monster worth voting for anywhere in the country even if the elections were honest. There are a few who would work for the people and within the framework of the constitution but they have no money and little support and we know how that goes.
The illusion of democracy is not even that anymore. It's wide open fraud, in your face by those running the show saying go ahead, talk all you want, there's nothing you're going to do about it.
"A republic if you can keep it" once said Ben Franklin. Obviously we haven't been able to.
John Quincy Adams in 1821 set forth the vision of the American republic and predicted what we have become by not sticking to that vision.
She has abstained from interference in the concerns of others, even when conflict has been for principles to which she clings, as to the last vital drop that visits the heart.... She goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.... She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence ... the fundamental maxims of her policy would insensibly change from liberty to force.... She might become the dictatress of the world.
