Strip & Flip Voter Suppression Exposed...

[Stonepounder]

7. Oh, how I wish...

that we could have 'free, fair, and honest' elections in the U.S. But, it ain't gonna happen.

Free? State after state has passed laws making it more and more difficult (and costly) for the poor to vote - all in the name of 'preventing voter fraud' when, in reality the laws are designed to benefit the rich (Republicans) and to keep the poor (Democrats) from voting.

Fair? Just look at recent elections where the rich don't have to wait to vote because there are plenty of precincts and plenty of voting stations, while precincts are eliminated and it takes hours and hours of standing in line in pro districts.

Honest? LOL. When it looked like Al Gore was going to win Florida, suddenly new votes turned up from 'late precincts' to change the election results. When Gov Walker looked like he would be recalled, suddenly votes were 'found' to change the results and, coincidentally, just enough votes to prevent an automatic recount. But, since voting irregularities are investigated by the winners, the winners don't have any incentive to discover that they were actually the losers.

Voting machines? Don't make me laugh. It is funny, is it not, that your supermarket can produce a printed tape of everything you bought, how much you were charged for each item, how much your total was, and how you paid for it, but it is 'too expensive' to make a voting machine print a tape of how you voted. Oh, and the computer code that runs the voting machine is a 'trade secret', so no one can look at it. Even though it has been demonstrated time and again how easy it is to hack one of them.

Elections in the U.S. are a joke. A dog and pony show. The game is rigged. It is one of those things that amuse the rich and make the rest of us feel like we actually have a say in how we get ripped off. And nothing will change, since the vast majority of sheeple get their news from TV, and the TV airwaves are owned by huge multinationals who care only about keeping the status quo and transferring more and more wealth from the have-nots to the haves. They will be ecstatic when feudalism returns once more.