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In reply to the discussion: We are in a war for our lives. The war is between the 1% elite and the 99%. You are hopelessly [View all]ancianita
(36,238 posts)no matter how long the counting takes, completely run by the public and neither party over a three day voting holiday weekend. With foreign or UN and non-partisan international lawyer observers. No police,military or other 'security' may interfere at any point of the vote count in any of America's 3033 counties except at the request of voting precinct captains or sealed container vote transporters. All votes will be stored in designated, secure locations. Libraries might be a good first storage spot.
On the ballot must be national referenda questions:
1. To leave or remove all non-public money from campaigning.
2. To pass or a Women's Constitutional ERA Amendment.
3. To reinstate Glass-Steagall.
4. To Dissolve Congress and hold special state elections by Nov. 30.
5. To Elect the Attorney General of the U.S., whose first act will be to arrest thieves of the US Treasury per evidence, regardless of intent; whose second act will be to charge Interpol with bring to the US all named holders of US cash over $1,000,000 in bank accounts of foreign banking jurisdictions.
6. Drop the voting age to full-time public high school seniors in good grade and attendance standing. Non-enrolled students must be eighteen.
7. Allow or disallow all released prison convicts to vote.
Sure, people can shoot holes in this, but we must start somewhere. We must. Occupy's first five general demands were also a good start. But I like the public control demand of all future elections, from length of campaigns, to how much money the public allows each party spend, to how, who and what gets on the ballot. No more J.O.B. lawyering for some longass slog. We must drag out our toughest bulldog lawyers -- get any lawyers from all over the world who have law degrees from US universities for their help.
No laughing. We must, must agree as a country to fight to totally control the machinery of voting and counting, or the free and fair is just fairy tale talk.