Monday, November 12, 2012

An Election Protection Agenda for 2016


A voter gets help from an election worker at the Halloran Skating Rink in Cleveland, on Election Day, November 6, 2012. (Photo: Michael F. McElroy / The New York Times)
A mass grassroots election protection movement has been born. It's finally forced the issues of mass disenfranchisement and hackable electronic voting machines into the mainstream.

And it's emerged from this election with a must-do list of things that need to be accomplished---soon---if we are to retain any shreds of American democracy.
Meanwhile the flaws in our system allowed the theft of the presidential elections of 2000 and 2004, and threatened to do it again this year. They've allowed the theft of countless other races for Congress, governorships, state offices, judgeships, referenda and more.

This cuts to the core of our democracy process. But as we've seen so many times before, we can change all this.

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