Voter Confidence Resolution ADOPTED By Palo Alto City Council

[GuvWurld]

http://wedonotconsent.blogspot.com/2006/09/voter-confidence-resolution-adopted-by.html

Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Voter Confidence Resolution ADOPTED By Palo Alto City Council

By Dave Berman

By a 5-3 vote on Monday night, the City Council of Palo Alto, CA adopted the Voter Confidence Resolution (VCR). Palo Alto joins Arcata, CA as the second city to declare that current election conditions ensure inconclusive results, and:

Whereas inconclusive results, by definition, mean that the true outcome of an election cannot be known, there is no basis for confidence in the results reported from such elections;

Inconclusive outcomes and no basis for confidence are two of the three main points emphasized in the Guide To The Voter Confidence Resolution. The VCR is a template to be customized in each community. The Guide's third main point is that the legitimacy, or "just Power" of government, derives exclusively from the Consent of the Governed. This concept stems from the Declaration of Independence. The template and Arcata's language include this provision:

When elections are conducted under conditions that prevent conclusive outcomes, the Consent of the Governed is not being sought. Absent this self-evident source of legitimacy, such Consent is not to be assumed or taken for granted.

In Palo Alto, the VCR has been http://wedonotconsent.blogspot.com/2006/09/voter-confidence-resolution-advances.html">championed through the public process by Shauna Wilson, Chairperson of the Human Relations Commission. Through all the revisions that led to Monday night, the above clause was left intact. However, in a compromise that apparently became necessary to win a majority Council vote, this final part of the statement was dropped.

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[Amaryllis]

1. YES!!!!

[Kip Humphrey]

2. HOT DAMN!!!

[EFerrari]

3. Excellent! I'm going to send the link to your blog out, Guv.

Congratulations.

[emlev]

4. Woo-hoo! Congrats and thanks to GuvWurld and Shauna Wilson!

And thanks to all those who supported the effort!

[Febble]

5. Congratulations. n/t

[slackmaster]

6. This is kind of like a city council posting a resolution banning mosquitos

More power to them, I guess.

[JimDandy]

8. DU should pass such a resolution, then.

Those pesky, blood-sucking distractors that spread malaise need to be banned everywhere.

[slackmaster]

9. A small town in North Carolina banned fire ants once

I don't know how it worked out.

[GuvWurld]

10. Malaise?

Guv: I think you mean malaria.
JD: No, I mean malaise.

;-)

[JimDandy]

12. Sorry about

breaking up your thread. I should have just ignored the mosquito, instead of swatting at it. :eyes: It's now on ignore.

[JimDandy]

7. The tipping point was finally reached

with Election Integrity issues as evidenced by, among other things, their now more frequent exposure in the main stream media. The Voter Confidence Resolution will get there, too.

"No doubt the Consent of the Governed has not been considered by anyone to be withdrawn based on Arcata's adoption of the VCR on July 20, 2005. The point being that many such statements must be adopted to generate the cumulative impact that makes the point inevitably true." (We Do Not Consent blog)

http://wedonotconsent.blogspot.com/2006/09/voter-confidence-resolution-adopted-by.html

[texpatriot2004]

11. Wonderful news. nm

[In Truth We Trust]

13. Hand Counted Paper ballots NOW!!!

[kster]

14. Kick....nt

[SnoopDog]

15. Thanks Guv, for all your efforts.

We all need to get off our butts and do just alittle more... (me included)

[Wilms]

16. We need an emoticon for fainting.

Wonderful news.

What happens in Nov?

[Kurovski]

17. Great work, GW!

:thumbsup:

[noel adamson]

18. Hope springs eternal

Let's hope these small sparks in an America parched with a thirst for genuine democracy flare to an open flame.

[Wilms]

19. Kick