Termyn8or
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(reason I split the post is because I used fastreply and it locks up on me)
Now if we canvassed enough of one congressional district, especially one with alot of people unhappy with the government (where will we find that ? lol), and get say ½ of them to sign up. At that level of proof it could sway the election right then and there.
The reason for this is because we have an electoral college. Almost anybody with a brain knows that yes, but what many do not know the these representatives are not legally nor lawfully bound to vote the constituency. If evidence is presented to them that there was vote fraud, they have ability to vote the other way, split the votes or abstain.
Perhaps the framers of the Constitution foresaw that someone might commit vote fraud sometime in the future. If so, this was meant to give us a last chance at a long bad road, but to the ballot box instead of the cartridge box.
Let's say a bunch of people who voted for someone who lost by a small margin. You all know I have a devious mind and a set of morals considered by some to be eccentric. But I do try to see all sides of something. As such I figure that it is the closest elections (in true numbers) that are the most vulnerable to fraud. However in any venue, if the People would get together and network and say, setup an array of stations across the district. If the loser of an election lost by less than a certain amount (we'll have to figure out where to draw that line), the people who voted for the loser have X days (another line) to come and do a quick affidavit, mostly pre-filled out.
Just some thoughts. Another thought, I would think that proxy ballots would be safe. That's a paper trail. Now what if everybody in the district, or let's even say, a large percentage decided to use proxy ballots ?
But I know human nature (or is that inhuman ?), and they will most likely respond by making it illegal to use a proxy ballot unless you really are too far to make it in time.
Thinking it through, we would have to respond by going outside the district to mail the ballots. We could charter buses, carpool, generally try to be environmentally friendly. I don't mean pollution, but that would be a hell of alot of traffic. And I don't think you want to mail it too early either.
I can't put my finger on it, it is instinct for me to say it would not be good to vote too early. The only explanation I can give is I see it like a racetrack. They set the game and the big money usually wins. If you place the bet correctly you may come out ahead. This is not a good analogy, this situation is that those ballots cannot be counted until they are recieved. But they must be counted.
I don't want to get too metaphysical here, but this struck me. The US government is our patient. It is very sick, infested with numerous forms of "cancer", the most serious of which is greed.
It needs an infusion of fresh blood, not in the fields of Iraq, but on Capitol Hill. The President is not the only person there. There are over 400 positions that could be considered vulnerable. Of those, the ones running the closest margins must be attended to first. If we could invalidate a fraudulent vote statistic just once, the impact would be immense.
They would never be able to keep a lid on it. Sometime after the BBC got hold of the story I bet we would see some change.
Well we have seen change, but it is not good and people are not watching.
If it happened here in this district I would make sure the BBC got it, maybe even first. Let them scoop the local news. Maybe. Happen in my lifetime ? Who knows.
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