Prelude To The Citizen's Revolution
by wlswarts@earthlink.net
Last updated 2004-11-17
FACT: In the 2004 election, there were an obscene amount of voting and tabulation irregularities. At the most recent count, VotersUnite.org had cataloged 349 separate incidents of voting problems, machine difficulties, voter registration problems and/or tabulation errors. FACT: Amendments 15, 19, 24, and 26 to the United States Constitution essentially guarantee the right to vote to all citizens of the United states 18 years and older. FACT: In several states, including and especially Ohio, provisional ballots are not being counted due to procedural discrepancies. FACT: The media has largely been silent on these issues and the majority of the American people are not aware of the true state of the problems in the 2004 election. They must be informed. STATEMENT OF PURPOSE: Laws that prevent ANY voter who meets the age requirement from voting once are unconstitutional and their votes MUST be counted. Currently, they are not. The United States is made up of a diverse constituency of people who come from many different ethnic, cultural and religious backgrounds. The binding force of the United States is the belief in the democracy that has been established here for over two hundred years. The belief in the democracy of the United States is why people risk their lives on rafts, desperately try to get smuggled in in crates and die every day to enter this country. It is the reason we do not get back on the boat to Europe, Africa, the Middle East or the Far East. The trust in the government of the United States is based, fundamentally, on the power of the citizens of the United States to express their views through voting. Forcing the electorate to use machines that are not accurate or write on ballots that will not be counted is subverting the ability of the American People to control the government that works FOR them. This must stop. It must be dealt with now, not in 2006, not in 2008. OBJECTIVES: Every vote MUST be cast and counted. The government and private contractors must be held accountable for their actions and inactions in regards to voting. To that end, the people DEMAND: 1. A complete audit of all voting machines and precincts in the United States of America to determine who won the election for President of the United States in 2004. 2. ANY machine that has a discrepancy in the vote count between the number of votes cast and the number of votes counted must be returned to the vendor. The manufacturer must refund the states the cost of the machine(s) and every vote cast on any one of those machines must be considered tainted. An investigation must be made into the companies making the machines for possible criminal or negligence charges. 3. Every precinct affected by a machine found to be faulty must revote. A tainted election does not call for a recount, but rather a recasting of all ballots that are tainted. The assumption when one machine is found to be malfunctioning must be that all are tainted. 4. The revote may not occur on any machine found to have malfunctioned and any new machines provided must be a. proven to be tamper proof and b. be provided from a company that has no ties to any political party. Barring that, paper ballots must be used. 5. The counting of the ballots must occur with uniform, transparent standards that are universally applied. The Carter Foundation may be called upon to propose the necessary legislation. No Secretary of State may be involved with the counting or certification of the elections if they have any ties to any Presidential campaign. 6. The only votes in precincts that have tainted equipment that may be counted are the absentee ballots, but they must be recounted and recertified. Provisional ballots must be counted and may only be thrown away if the voter was not registered to vote or already voted via absentee ballot. All other provisional ballots MUST be counted. 7. The process of revoting must be done with the understanding that the election outcomes will change because not all votes have yet been legally cast. OBJECTIVES: 1. To overcome the bias in the media against reporting election-related stories and allow a citizen to make a statement outlining the problems voters have faced and to list the demands of the citizens. If no media outlet will present coverage, the citizens must take control of the media in order to make the statements public (Sunday night is ideal). 2. Publicly present the above demands of our government, 3. At the end of the demands, present the punishment for noncompliance. MISSION: If the government of the United States will not comply with the demand of the people to have their votes recounted and/or recast AND for the United States to become transparent in all aspects of the election process, the people will revolt in the following ways: 1. The revolt will be nonviolent and occur one week from the public demands being made, 2. The revolt will occur when the people strike en masse. The people of the United States will refuse to go to work and thus shut down the industry of the United States in full. In the week between the listing of the demands and the strike, the people will write to their representatives indicating their support for the strike and cell leaders will contact heads of industry and unions and gather the support necessary to shut America down economically. In the statement, healthcare workers will be exempted from the strike. As well, all people will be encouraged to stock up on necessities in the week between the statement and the strike. 3. The strike will end when the government concedes to the demands of the people. "The threat to the United States economy by the people's revolt will be temporary and the State will recover; the threat to the democracy of the United States for the inaction of the people will destroy the nation."
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