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| Commentary on CURRENT EVENTS, September 30, 2006 |
| Any cursory student of history would realize that the alleged ' election voting systems ', or DRE ' s ~ Direct Recording Electronic devices, now in place here in America is NOT THE SAME plan envisioned when this Republic was established. In fact Our Founding Fathers would most likely turn over in their graves were they to learn just how corrupted the entire election process has become nowadays! Prior to the War for Independence colonial governors were appointed by the British Crown based upon nepotism, bribery and favoritism usually to the advantage of the appointing authority, and remained so in all subsequent and subordinate appointments. This intransient system became a continuing pustulous sore that enflamed the rebellion against King George III all the more when no petitions for a redress of grievances were heard at any level of the colonial government since the ruling regimes were not beholden to public opinion in general or to any member of the public in particular. The entire system was perceived as being corrupt with the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it and institute a new form of government ~ hence the Declaration of Independence! Thus following the War for Independence Our Founding Fathers favored a ' petitioning process ' whereby all duly elected public officials were chosen by a majority of Citizens petitioning a candidate for public office. This meant that anyone who wished to be a candidate elected by the public on Election Day simply won by having the majority of Citizens SIGN THEIR PETITION in an Open Ballot process! Thus everybody knew who everyone else voted for on each Election Day! Why was this petitioning process chosen? Because all law is a contract between a principle and an agent and the terms being the contract, in this case the terms of the Constitution with its powers and limitations. Thus by having an OPEN BALLOT PROCESS, each Citizen simply signed the CANDIDATE PETITION OF THEIR CHOICE and the candidate who received the most signatures of the majority of Citizens signing their petition won the election! With respect to the position of President of the United States, the candidate with the most signatures became president, and the second most became the vice-president, thus the minority was only a heartbeat away from being the majority upon the death of any elected official by fulfilling the term of office in a truly democratic process until the next election! But what is even more profound and historically important is that by having an Open Ballot process, each Citizen who signed the petition for a candidate for public office, not only showed their open support for that person, but also became EQUALLY LIABLE as did the candidate once the candidate took their Oath of Office! That ' s why candidates for public office posted a ' personal bond ' of all their assets just in case they violated their Oath of Office. And if any given public official misspent, embezzled, squandered or personally gained from public service, then whatever amount was not covered by their ' personal bond ', was covered by equally assessing each Citizen who signed that candidate ' s petition for public office! Truly a way of making public officials beholden to the public! Under the Common Law however, Citizens protected themselves by having in place checks & balances ', for if a person took an Oath of Office and violated that Oath in any manner, the first thing the public official lost was his ' personal bond ' and his property rights! If the offense was more serious, the public official was imprisoned, and if treacherous or treasonable, the public official could be hanged at the busiest intersection of any given County from high-noon until sunset to set an example to other public officals of the importance of their Oath of Office as a public trust! The Sheriff of any given County is the only duly elected law enforcement authority and the primary duty of a Sheriff is to protect the Rights of the Citizens by making sure that each public official abides by and follows their Oath of Office! And if not, then the Sheriff could institute a ' Citizens Grand Jury ', and place the public official on trial to implement one of the three choices mentioned accordingly. In this respect, ' public officials ' were truly ' public servants ' at all times and in all circumstances! If at any time a Sheriff refused his duty, then a ' Posse Comitatus ' could be formed to place the Sheriff on trial, and then take action against the errant public servants. The Second Amendment insured these Rights for all Citizens! The first political party to actually hold a ' nominating convention ' and choose a ' slate ' of candidates was the Anti-Masonic Party in 1828 that successfully elected candidates to public office again through the petitioning process and an OPEN BALLOT. It was not until after the War Between the States that SECRET BALLOTS came into being since the Radical Republicans wanted to ensure their rape, pillage & plundering of the Confederate States under the terms of ' Reconstruction ' ~ enforced with a Federal Occupation force ~ not much different than what is now taking place today in Afghanistan, Iraq & Palestine under occupation forces! Under the ' Reconstruction terms ' white men were not permitted to vote if they fought for the Confederacy, and since most freed slaves could not read or write, it was easy to just have them place an ' X ' on a ballot and stuff a ballot box to elect any given Scalawag or Carpetbagger! And the stuffing of ballot boxes from then until now has been a matter of historical controversy over corrupt elections via the SECRET BALLOT ~ 2000 and 2004 being perhaps the most notorious of all! And with the introduction of Secret Ballot voting, public servants became public officials no longer responsible for their actions or beholden directly to the Citizens! Convenient indeed for the ruling regime! But since 2000 a new federal law, entitled ' Help America Vote Act ' (HAVA), has been implemented in which ELECTRONIC TOUCH SCREEN VOTING is being implemented nationwide which permits a ' ballot printout ' for the voter to take home with them as proof that they voted the way they desired ~ but there has yet to be proven a means by which the electronic voting machine can guarantee voting accuracy without chicanery, or voting accuracy in lieu of power failures, or accuracy in lieu of memory capacity, ad nauseam! The investigations into such electronic voting fraud are still ongoing in states like Ohio and Florida four years after the stolen election of 2004! Thus while ' paper ballots ' may take longer to count, at least there is a ' paper trail ', but in the end what is produced is simply election ballots filled with an ' X ' in each box! And although great lengths are now being taken for accuracy in VOTER REGISTRATION, including fingerprinting as seen in Afghanistan & Iraq, such efforts DO NOT guarantee voting accuracy, or prevent vote fraud, as also seen in Afghanistan, Iraq and recently in Mexico as the ruling regimes, whether by occupation or election, STILL STUFF THE BALLOT BOXES for partisan purposes! What is the REFORM solution? Why not simply return to OPEN BALLOT VOTING via the candidate PETITION PROCESS whereby each Voter simply signs a petition on Election Day for the candidates of their choice? At the end of the day there is proof-positive as to how many Citizens voted and for whom they voted ~ and there is written proof of all those duly elected! And in this day and age, when most folks are literate enough to read and write, there is no reason why this system cannot be easily implemented. For let ' s remember that in the time of Our Founding Fathers, only property owners were allowed to vote and that the vast majority of Citizens then were not literate. We ' ve all recently seen just how corrupt voting has become using ' paper ballots ', mechanical voting machines, and now electronic voting machines ~ and it will only get WORSE unless a true verification process can be implemented and sustained! That can come about by returning to OPEN BALLOT VOTING! But just how sincere will the current process remain when courts like the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta, Georgia, make judicial decisions (Wexler v Anderson) declaring that the U.S. Constitution does NOT require vote-counting equipment that produces an audit trail? Well of course the Constitution ratified in 1790 did not provide for ' vote-counting equipment ' when folks voted by openly signing a petition for the candidate of their choice! But nevertheless, do court decisions like Wexler seem the kind of atmosphere in which corruption and vote fraud will be eliminated ~ or only made worse? And who truly believes that the ruling regime at any given time will make it easier for any other choices other than of, by, and for themselves? That ' s why alternative political choices are so important ~ yet so difficult at present ~ since the Special Interests currently controlling America DO NOT WANT COMPETITION! That ' s why it ' s time for REFORM! Defy and defeat the current system ~ Register to vote Reform today in your respective State ~ and then only vote for Reform candidates! Let the ' 10 POINTS of REFORM for AMERICA ' lead the way for a better world tomorrow! |
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