Voter Fraud Inevitable from Digital ElectionsSARTRE, Contributor So what should we expect for 2004, a presidential election year? First off, the misnomer that presidents are elected must be dispelled. They are selected. Any reasonable and sensible person must conclude that Thomas Jefferson could never win the nomination of a major party. Political parties have always hated the Republic. Their purpose is to confuse and distort politics in order that their organizations can manage the process of sham elections. The fraud that there is a real difference between the DemocRATS and RepubliCANTS, should be apparent to even the most obsessed party activist. So why do the masses continue to act as asses? Why do they still vote? The only answer that potentially explains this discontent from sane reality is that voters believe they get something out of supporting a politician. As the twisted notion that ones vote actually alters the establishment status quo, persists in the shallow minds of naive benefit spongers, the harsh facts testify to a different outcome. The essay Fatalistic Reality and Election Futility, laments the actual results. After every election, the system continues to grind citizens into the ground. The privileged few continue to accrue their vast sums of booty, as the debt soars to heights that only a super computer can calculate. The introductions of marvelous digital ballot computing devices are a programmers arena and a politicians dream. How can we rely on voting results when the cases of voting machine problems are so hugely widespread? There are over 200,000,000 million registered voters. It would take a huge amount of voter fraud to tilt an election. However, an entire countys votes can be compromised by voting machine problems, and they have, many times over. The GOP is yelling about Voter Fraud, when the real problems are the well-documented problems with voting machines? You never hear them yelling about this reality. The political machines of the duality party monopoly work the 0s and 1s to game the system. The idea that a true competition exists pushes the limits of reason. The elites behind the current political selection, keep the appearance of a cutthroat race, when the administrators of the vote counting codes program the agreed upon results into the outcome. Pat Shannan in the American Free Press cites Black Box Election Fraud Alleged in GOP Primaries and introduces the activism of Bev Harris. Her book, Black Box VotingBallot Tampering in the 21st Century is now available at no charge at blackboxvoting.org. It details the numerous election computer breakdowns that seem to follow almost every questionable situation. In the Post-Election Audits Necessary for Electronic Voting Systems article, Fahmida Y. Rashid argues improvements in the vote counting system. The primary way to safeguard the integrity of the vote was to mandate statistically meaningful post-election audits, instead of setting security standards for each voting equipment, researchers from California Institute of Technology and Massachusetts Institute of Technology wrote in the latest Voting Technology Project report. The problem with this approach does not secure protection from intentional tampering to the operating system code. Mr. Rashid cites a flagrant example. It turned out DREs werent all that secure. Several researchers examined the copy of the Diebold voting system software and found egregious security lapses, such as incorrect use of encryption, that put it at high risk of compromise. If the voting systems had been tampered with before the election to incorrectly record the votes, there was no easy way for election official to verify the votes had been recorded correctly. David S. Levine in a column, Can We Trust Voting Machines?, provides evidence of more skepticism. Do we want the source code that tells the machine how to register, count, and tabulate votes to be a trade secret such that the public cannot verify that an election has been conducted accurately and fairly without resorting to (ironically) paper verification? Can we trust the private vendors when they assure us that the votes will be assigned to the right candidate and wont be double-counted or simply disappear, and that the machines cant be hacked? As a September USA Today editorial described, all of the above have either been proven to be potential risks or have actually happened. The thesis against centralization of counting ballots results argues that the method to fix a national election is far greater with the use of electronic voting machines. The expense of a billion dollar campaign is a mere payoff to the media moguls to gain favor in the contorted psychological wasteland of the media message. Substance and sincere engagement on issues and policy are virtually unknown in the staged combat of diversion and subterfuge. In order to gain a keen insight into electronic voting abuses watch the videos. A key criticism is that any system that consolidates the tallying of votes or presents a surreptitious method of distorting or fixing the results should be discarded. The imperfect paper ballot practice of precinct vote counting had a greater degree of a safeguard then an electronic centralization count. Nevertheless, the proposition that direct elections can be designed to reflect the reliable will of the electorate is a false objective and a frightful abandonment of the fundamental purpose of America. The Republic is severely crippled, when direct democracy replaces representation. The intention to inculcate the vote among (theoretical) equals to affirm the rule of (elite) unequals, is an offense against all humankind. A representative government that excludes political partisan careerists is essential. A populist infusion of citizen responsibility into local civic life is indispensable to a just society. During this latest quadrennial election season, the political foreplay surrounding the coronation of the next tyrant in chief is sickening. A major theme of the TC series of essays is that the federal government is illegitimate. During this current electronic pageant reality show, the promise of righting the ship of state is an elusive fantasy. The valid replacement political system to the profane oligarchy that subjugates our fellow Americans is the model of The TUN a true representative council. Read this Inherent Autonomy article for the background and full explanation for real representative republic. For those who favor and prompt a state or national constitutional convention, it is necessary to have a true representative alternative to the nuisance of direct democracy or the fascism and cronyism of two-party tag team elections. Is it possible to apply this method through the current political establishment system? Most unlikely; however, the importance of the exercise and future debate is to have an alternative when the current unconstitutional system collapses. The most rabid Utopian statists want to abolish the Electoral College. Many of these same collectivist egalitarians favor early balloting, Internet voting and oppose providing proof of registration before casting a vote. The extent of their ignorance rivals the deceit of the phony party divergence. The campaign circus hardly fosters confidence in political leadership or honesty. In addition to the partisan torture of countless lies and corrupt tactics, the public is subjugated to the insult of doctoring the ballot count. Over a hundred million of our compatriots will sit on their hands and stay home for this next presidential election. The fictitious claim that the people provide consent to the ruling class is offensive. Is this an imposition on U. S. sovereignty? Do we now trust the United Nations with securing our individual liberty? Is our national government supreme, second only to God, or are we now earthers? Have you surrendered being an American? So much for the Grand National experiment, RIP for a once great nation. RELATED ACTIVIST POST ARTICLE: SARTRE is the pen name of James Hall, a reformed, former political operative. This pundits formal instruction in History, Philosophy and Political Science served as training for activism, on the staff of several politicians and in many campaigns. A believer in authentic Public Service, independent business interests were pursued in the private sector. Speculation in markets, and international business investments, allowed for extensive travel and a world view for commerce. SARTRE is the publisher of BREAKING ALL THE RULES. Contact batr@batr.org linkwithin_text=Related Articles: 