Voting

Erik Garcés ~ Your Vote Is Meaningless When The System Is Corrupt

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The Jeenyus Corner | October 5 2012

Dennis Kucinich

When you vote, you legitimatize the system which enslaves us. Keep in mind the most fundamentally misunderstood fact of our existence. All government is by consent of the governed. That’s irrefutable.

Einstein’s definition of insanity was repeating a task and expecting a different result each time. If elections really could make a difference, wouldn’t they have by now? By definition, when you participate in this process, that is insanity.

Moreover, choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.

So many people simply cannot break their lifetime of conditioning to see these fundamentals. They will argue to their death to protect the very system used to control them.

What’s being consciously ignored is that when one force controls both sides in an election, you don’t have an election. The choices are statism at breakneck speed OR arriving there just a little bit slower. When one party’s advocacy for government expansion arouses too much objection, the statism is shifted to the other direction as the other party installed becomes publicly perceived as the “reformer”.

No matter the electoral results, debt and death will come from the welfare/warfare system of the American Empire created by money power. Your true masters.

That’s the scam.

If we carefully examine the factual history of the last century, and not through the prism of corporate controlled media and state controlled schools, we can easily see the pattern. That’s what the system has winnowed out: your ability to connect the dots.

No matter which party is in power, you’re kept emotionally (but never logically) connected to one or the other parties. There are never, EVER allowed to be third alternatives. We’re encouraged to debate endlessly over personalities and policy but never are we allowed to question that its the very system itself that is the problem.

In the rare cases that some outside candidate breaks through, the system reacts quickly and violently to destroy that person and then rapidly changes the rules to ensure that something like that never happens again.

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Nearly 2 Million Deceased U.S. Citizens Still Registered to Vote

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Brian Koenig | The New American | February 15 2012

As the 2012 election nears, a report published by the non-partisan Pew Center on the States asserted that nearly two million deceased Americans are still registered to vote, while one in every eight voter registrations contains significant errors. More than 2.7 million Americans have active registrations in more than one state, and approximately 12 million contain address inaccuracies, likely preventing them from receiving voting-related mail; further, more than 50 million eligible U.S. citizens are unregistered.

The Pew study, which was released Tuesday, also shows that the United States spends more on voter registration while producing worse results than many other countries such as Canada. In fact, the authors note, “Canada, which uses modern technology to register people as well as data-matching techniques common in the private sector, spends less than 35 cents per voter to process registrations, and 93 percent of its eligible population is registered.” Contrarily, a 2008 Pew study administered in Oregon indicated that taxpayers were paying more than $4 per voter to keep lists up to date, and other states have generated similar numbers.

“Voter registration is the gateway to participating in our democracy [sic], but these antiquated, paper-based systems are plagued with errors and inefficiencies,” alleged David Becker, Pew’s Director of Election Initiatives. “These problems waste taxpayer dollars, undermine voter confidence and fuel partisan disputes over the integrity of our elections.”

“We have a ramshackle registration system in the U.S.,” echoed Lawrence Norden, Deputy Director of the Brennan Center’s Democracy Program at New York University. “It’s a mess. It’s expensive. There isn’t central control over the process.” Norden and his colleagues have been advocating modernization of the voter registration system, but they also caution against states rushing to discard voters from the rolls. “This is something that has to be done very carefully,” he warned.

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