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The Flaming Red Head Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-10-04 09:16 AM
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Until Fraud and Voter suppression is dealt with I will not vote, again.

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Stuckinthebush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-10-04 09:20 AM
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1. I have to think that just makes their job easier
Perhaps not the best option.
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in_cog_ni_to Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-10-04 09:31 AM
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2. I will NEVER vote as long as we have evoting.
period.
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ArkDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-10-04 09:38 AM
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3. Intelligent decision. If we would all boycott the vote we can
turn this thing around!
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The Flaming Red Head Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-10-04 02:11 PM
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9. The way the Dems are turning into a right wing action committee
I don't who I could vote for, ANYWAY.
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-10-04 09:44 AM
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4. So deal with it. Make sure your own town, county, and state
are ok. Get together with other folks from your state and make sure they do something about their towns and counties. This CAN be done.

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FIGHT! Take this country back one town and state at a time!
http://www.geocities.com/greenpartyvoter/electionreform.htm
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slackmaster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-10-04 09:54 AM
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5. You'll be playing right into their hands
Cheating isn't possible unless the actual vote is close.
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MsTryska Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-10-04 09:54 AM
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6. I plan on voting.
by absentee ballot and i encourage every democratically inclined person to do so.


boycott the blackboxes.

i'm sure after a season or two of having to manually count half of the countries ballots each year, a new solution would be found.

remember that cuts into budgets all the manpower and the hours needed to count and certify.

it ain't gonna be quick and dirty.

they want to take us into the middle ages socially, let's take them back administratively.
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libertad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-10-04 09:56 AM
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7. That was the whole idea. Foster voter apathy so you can always
have your way.
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ohioan Donating Member (563 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-10-04 09:59 AM
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8. THAT'LL show 'em!
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UpsideDownFlag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-10-04 02:16 PM
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10. wow. way to preemptively lose. nt
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Minstrel Boy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-10-04 02:19 PM
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11. Absolutely! The process needs to be delegitimized.
Participating in a known fraud lends the fraud de facto legitimacy. Strip that from them.

It's been done elsewhere successfully, when voting the despots out wasn't respected, and people have taken their countries back in reasonable peace.

Boycotting electoral piracy is not voter apathy. It's activism.
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Rockerdem Donating Member (706 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-13-04 12:21 PM
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12. Be more positive
I had the fortune on election night of being on my third date with a woman at a post-election party. She had been working a local election for while as part of her activity program for countering depression. What a burden to befall me, after the outcome became dreary looking, both locally and nationally. Yet I had the wherewithal to convince her that all was not lost, and she managed a few convincing smiles in a room otherwise dominated by apprehension, emptiness, sadness and tears.

Although we are not seeing each other anymore, she has adopted my upbeat outlook that, where others see a problem, there's really an opportunity. I'm proud of her (and me a little bit too). We Democrats are in that position today. It wasn't so much as a loss, but a near-miss.

Roll up your sleeves and get to work. You're too valuable.
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