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Marthe48

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13. Thanks Senator Brown! My Senator!
Wed Sep 10, 2014, 08:55 PM
Sep 2014

I saved a picture of the Republican mob who terrorized the volunteers doing the recount in Florida in 2000, so that 'election' is always fresh in my mind. Voter suppression was already in use during that election, and it has gotten more sophisticated and wide-spread since then. And voter fraud? If my grocery store can print out a receipt naming every totally random item I bought, price per item, all the coupons and discounts, and tell me how many bonus points I have, then by God, the electronic voting machines can print out a paper receipt to show how I voted. The exit polls need to be revived. Any 'proprietary' voting applications need to be made public, or junked. There isn't any coverage of the flaws in voting, or what dedicated investigators have uncovered, so most people are like 'what voting irregularities?' We can GOTV to the max, but if the votes are redirected, lost, not counted, we aren't going to win. And every election is covered as 'too close to call' so that if somebody gets a helping hand, it isn't even scrutinized. And I didn't even get to gerrymandering, which as far as I'm concerned can and should be reversed as soon as any state gets a Democratic majority.

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