The REAL Terrorists: Conservative ‘CHRISTIAN’ Pastor Openly Calls For EXECUTING ALL GAY PEOPLE By Christmas Day

[Peace Patriot]

112. Don't be so smug! What happens to your "paper ballot" after you vote?

You didn't name your state, so I can't do YOUR work for you and find out the likely truth, that your ballot is fed into an ELECTRONIC SCANNER and then your ballot is tossed into a dust bin and is never seen again--is very unlikely to be among the miserably inadequate 1% that are audited, or in case of a very rare and very expensive (almost impossible) recount, your vote won't be likely to show up in the miserably inadequate 3% 'recount.' The vast majority of ballots are NEVER COUNTED by human eyes and hands under human observation. Once scanned, your "vote" then exists as a stream of HIGHLY MANIPULABLE electrons that are shot over the wires from the scanner into the CENTRAL TABULATOR, scanner and tabulator more than likely controlled by the far rightwing corporation, ES&S/Diebold (75% of the voting machines in the country) or by some other big corporation, both using 'TRADE SECRET' code--code that you and I are forbidden to review.

This is bad enough, in itself, that we are being sold the ILLUSION, in half of the states in the country--the ones with ballots and scanners--that our votes are being counted. THEY ARE NOT. But it is even worse in the other half of the states, which don't even have the capability of an audit--the ones with no ballot at all.

I don't know if your view that this is "my problem" is naivete or snark, but this situation is very much your problem, and mine, and the problem of all U.S. citizens. What happens in South Carolina, or Wisconsin, or wherever, as to the LACK OF real vote counts, very much affects us all. You just have to take a glance at this 8%-approval-rating Congress to know that.

So, what state do you live in? And do ordinary citizens count the ballots in your state--or do machines do it, with privately owned and controlled 'TRADE SECRET' code?

And, EVEN IF your state is the rarest of entities in this country, where citizens are actually still counting the votes and no private corporation has any control over it, you should be appalled that all the other states are sending people to Washington, none of whom can prove that they were elected, and are putting outright nutballs into governorships and other offices, who are trying to lead the country backwards a hundred years and more, on every issue of importance, from labor rights to fracking to false science in the public schools.

I have no problem with you worrying "about the hateful fuckers from the Straight Community speaking hate against my people." What makes you think that his targets are not my people, too? What makes you think I'm not worried about it? All I said is that people who believe in, and promote, the death penalty for homosexual, are closely associated with the people who have taken over our vote counting system with 'TRADE SECRET' code! THAT is much more worrisome to me than some dingbat preacher because THAT makes the dingbat preacher's scary hate-mongering CAPABLE BEING MADE INTO LAW?