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"Lisa Horton" wrote in message ... William Graham wrote: "Bob Hickey" wrote in message ... "William Graham" wrote in message ... And there are still people in the US today that believe only a small proportion of the population should vote. My father believed that only property owners should vote. I am not sure that he was wrong. There is something about only allowing those who have a real stake in a country's future to be allowed to control it, that appeals to some of us. Our country is today controlled by millions of rif-raf who only came here for a hand out, and don't really give a Damn whether we survive or die.......They don't bother to learn the language, and will vote for whoever gives them the most money in their welfare checks...... The only difference between them and the politicians they vote for is a suit. Hey! - I'll buy that.....I think we should do away with voting altogether. We basically have. We still go through the motions, of course. But when you vote using a machine with no paper trail, you have no guarantee that your vote was recorded, or recorded as you entered it. You have to trust the assurances of major Republican contributors that their machines are honest. And if you believe that, I've got some great deals on bridges for you. Lisa This nation is almost evenly divided between Republicans and Democrats....There is not more than 2 or 3 percent majority of either one from election to election. I seriously doubt if a conspiracy of either party could possibly be able to throw an election by "fixing" their voting machinery. Think of all the engineers, assembly line workers, machinery repair men, and others it would take to implement such a massive plot. I have worked side by side with these kinds of people all of my life, repairing punch-card machinery and, later on, computer operated hardware. My fellow workers were of all political attitudes. Some were staunch union loving social democrats, and some were wild-eyed capitalists like me. There is no way I could have taken part in any kind of plot to fix any machine to cheat the system politically. I doubt seriously if anyone could accomplish that. But, it is impossible to prove that something didn't happen, so I can offer nothing more than my own experience in this matter..... |
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"Voice of freedom" wrote in message 7.142... Lisa Horton wrote : William Graham wrote: "Bob Hickey" wrote in message ... "William Graham" wrote in message ... And there are still people in the US today that believe only a small proportion of the population should vote. My father believed that only property owners should vote. I am not sure that he was wrong. There is something about only allowing those who have a real stake in a country's future to be allowed to control it, that appeals to some of us. Our country is today controlled by millions of rif-raf who only came here for a hand out, and don't really give a Damn whether we survive or die.......They don't bother to learn the language, and will vote for whoever gives them the most money in their welfare checks...... The only difference between them and the politicians they vote for is a suit. Hey! - I'll buy that.....I think we should do away with voting altogether. We basically have. We still go through the motions, of course. But when you vote using a machine with no paper trail, you have no guarantee that your vote was recorded, or recorded as you entered it. You have to trust the assurances of major Republican contributors that their machines are honest. And if you believe that, I've got some great deals on bridges for you. "A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. Neither are a people any the less slaves because they are permitted periodically to choose new masters. What makes them slaves is the fact that they are now, and are always hereafter to be, in the hands of men whose power over them is, and always is to be, absolute and irresponsible." --Lysander Spooner, 'No Treason'. This would be true were the, "men whose power over them is, and always is to be, absolute and irresponsible." However, our system of checks and balances is supposed to make that an impossibility. During my lifetime, (the last 50 years or so) I haven't seen the kind of absolute and irresponsible power that L. Spooner speaks of. Some corruption, yes. But it seems to always be uncovered and punished sooner or later.......It is very hard to carry out a conspiracy that involves more than three or four people.......Especially when there are a thousand investigative reporters from the opposing party breathing down your neck 24-7. |
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