Great article on election fraud and election reform!

[Dancing_Dave]

Read it and get to work reforming your state...there are lots of states where these practical proposals could go through and make a difference!
http://www.bushwatch.net/partridge.htm

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[cprise]

1. Pretty savvy. Good enough for saving

..and emailing to others.

He identifies our other big problem as the media, and does it lucidly. If there is anything I would add to it is that formal media reform is also necessary. A completely commercial media market is inherently Right-wing on economics, and it is their conglomerates that largely pay for their favorite candidate's campaign (or in lieu of payment, they will shill and coverup for their candidate more than usual). This conflict of interest is as significant as corporate-run blackbox voting booths.

Between the media monopolists and the blackbox voting systems, corporatists can manufacture almost any kind of consent they wish. All they have to do is make sure that the upper class (large shareholders) understand the profit motive for coverups and other gross biases: Publish lots of articles in WSJ on immense oil wealth in Iraq and you drain away potential shareholder pressure that the few remaining news organs might have felt on that issue... pressure that would normally push news bureaus to compete for 'street cred' and viewers by highlighting important facts. Thus schisms between the large news organs are few on these matters, even against a backgound of silence and lies. PBS is "public" but stays in-line because unlike BBC-type broadcasters it is largely funded by a) politics and b) commercials, so it is dependant and meek and breaks no important stories itself.

So people grow to distrust the mass media. Many 'defect' to their point sources on the internet and even if a consensus grows among these seekers, their protest will be masked by computerized voting systems strategically placed: each booth a mass of hundreds of millions of electronic switches to obscure what is done with the few bits of information you submitted. Oh Diebold will give you an on-the-spot proof of deposit at any of their ATMs, but printouts at a voting booth are a monumental technical 'encumberance'... especially in large swing states.

So there is the duality of the monumental fraud we are supposed to ignore: CORPORATIZED MEDIA AND VOTING. The front and back ends of our consent cycle appropriated as a mechanism for installing corporatist despots.

[Dancing_Dave]

2. Right on, dude!

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