Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
A lot of important decisions are nearing completion. Members of Congress are deciding whether they are happy with HR-811 as it came out of committee. Many members have said they are no longer in support of the bill. Riverside Co. California supervisors have a decision whether to follow the recommendation of their study group to rid the county of Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) voting machines. San Francisco California election officials have to decide whether they will have to count ballots by hand in November. And Pennsylvania counties that use ES&S DREs have to decide whether they want to continue paying the exorbitant fees for machine warranties. And, by the way, speaking about decisions; many groups decided to support, and pleaded with their members to support, HR-811 two-weeks before the bill was even filed. Yet, those same groups are totally mum on S-1487 even though it is due to go to committee hearing in a week. Why the silence? Why are they not standing up and being vocal about their support for democracy and opposition to the bill?…
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The congress is putting pressure on the executive, so it is taking away some of their energy that could be used on other matters such as HR 811, S. 559, and S. 1487.
After all, the bipartisan vote in the Judiciary Committee of the Senate was 13-3 to subpoena.
Meanwhile and in response, the “executive” seems to be freaking out, in that, they are stonewalling with supreme stupidity.
They refuse to give documents in Tillman’s case, an action that happened in Afghanistan and one in which executive privilege is unavailable.
Miers did not even show up. Cheney may say he is not in the executive, but say he too has his own executive privilege.
So contempt proceedings are on the way, so more energy will be used up on the oversight arm of congress.
dredd,
even if we get our way and the election process becomes some sort of open source voting movement with no citizens disenfranchised and everyone can come out and vote with a big smile after taking the maditory day off for voting,
isn’t there still the electoral college?
Are we just repairing a broken outdated system that was corrupted way b4 any of us were born?
Take out the non person corporate entity leg and there is still religion, military, and politicians to make the old way continue. Are we in the Matrix? Help us NEO!