Re: A simple proposition to fix democracy in U.S.

> Democracy is dead.  All the vote rigging by repugs in the 2000 and

Democracy begins to die the day we stop believing in it.  There were
problems with the original system.  We can fix them.

We know what the problems are:

- Voter apathy, and low turnout can be repaired by declaring election
day a national holiday
- Secure, auditable, verifiable election machines can be built:
http://securevote.documentroot.com/

Statewide independent audits by the exit polls, the ACLU, and other
organizations have a margin of error of only 3%.  That's abount how
much wiggle room you have when you rig an election. There are hundreds
of groups who will be conducting independent audits during this next
election.

Bush can gerrymander and use Diebold boxes to shift botes from one
district to another and gain about 4%.  Plus the margin of error of
4%.  But they cannot rig statewide totals.

Thus we need to beat Bush by 7%

If only 14% of the whining "I hate bush but I can't do anything about
it" armchair pundits and political idiots got up and voted against
Bush... then we'd have him beaten easily.

To do that we need a passionate nominee (Howard Dean fits the bill
nicely), and we need cynics like you to realize how much damage you
are doing.

Do you realize that you are killing your country.

Do you know that with every useless negative word you spew online
potentially hundreds of voters, activists and reformers decide to sit
home and watch TV instead of get involved?

Please, please be present to the impact your words have on this
country.

You are a powerful person.  Your words matter.  Ever word you say
actually creates your reality, and impacts the realities of others.

Please email me.  I'll give you my phone number so we can talk about
this.

If you do, I promise that together, Americans will rise up in 2004,
and we will defeat tyranny, we will take back this country and we will
make our dreams of freedom a reality.