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Peace Patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-14-06 12:07 PM
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16. When the two alternatives that fascists present you with are BOTH bad,
what do you do? Vote by Absentee Ballot and they may throw a pitcher of water on the box holding those ballots? Or vote on their diabolical election theft equipment, with which they have the capability to easily switch your vote in the central electronic tabulator or in the voting machine itself? With the Absentee Ballot, at least you have a chance of finding the box of wet ballots.

I don't know, flyarm--but I still think that MASSIVE Absentee Ballot voting is the protest we have been waiting for. It needs to be yet more massive than what you were involved in--everybody, or nearly everybody, voting AB.

Think about this. What if, say, the 65% to 70% of Americans who loathe the Bush Junta all vote by AB? How absurd will it be when they are "calling" the election on only 30%-35% of the vote (just the e-vote)?

This absurdity cannot hold. It WILL break the rigged system.

Think about all the minor protests in the 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s, and before, that led up to the massive protests against segregation that erupted in the south in the mid-1960s. Little actions all the way along --individual or small group actions--that built up, over the years, to major action. Those early individuals and small groups were stomped on and oppressed. But their ideas were not. Their ideas grew. AB voting is up to 50% in Los Angeles. If it gets bigger, it busts the system. At the half-way mark, it still hasn't reached critical mass. Give it a bit of a boost and...kapowee!

That's what I'm thinkin.
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