"Paper" for President: The Time is NOW

Written by: Pamela Smith on Nov 23, 2006 11:45 AM EST

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"PAPER" for President: The Time is NOW  
By Michael Collins 
“Scoop” Independent News
Washington, DC  
The United States just endured another election that inspired more suspicion than confidence. Two years after the fiasco of Election 2004 in Ohio and elsewhere, four year years after the never investigated mystery of Georgia 2002, and six years after the disgrace of Florida which saw the loser of the popular vote (s)elected President by the Supreme Court; major problems pervade the US election system. The new problems created by computerized voting and tabulation merge with traditional race and class based election fraud in an assault on free, fair, transparent and inclusive elections. 
The Democratic controlled House of Representatives may be 10 to 12 members shy on the left side of the aisle due to election irregularities. Jonathan Simon of the Election Defense Alliance just published a major paper demonstrating that as many as three million votes may be missing from the 2006 election. Problems of this sort were anticipated by internet poster TruthIsAll and this author in a three part series in “Scoop” which developed a vote fraud model that identified likely races for those photo finishes that always seem to put a Republican in office.   
VotersUnite.Org produced a database of election irregularities from around the country. Ironically, the creator of the database was John Gideon who predicted many of the problems that he logged in the database. A short list of problems with voting machines in2006 includes: vote switching from one candidate to another; candidate names simply disappearing from the touch screens; full or partial deletion of candidate names; and a simple failure of voting machines to operate. 
The master foul-up occurred in Florida’s 13th Congressional District. More than 17,000 votes were simply lost. Ironically, this seat was just vacated by Katherine Harris, chief election official and Bush campaign chair during Florida’s 2000presidential election. That race and at least three others remain without a conclusive vote count. A further irony is that the election to replace Harris resulted in a very slim advantage for the Republican candidate with the 17,000 ballots removed from the equation. Paper for President: House Resolution 6200 Representative Dennis Kucinich, D, Ohio introduced HR 6200 on September 27, 2006. His bill will “ amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to require States to conduct Presidential elections using paper ballots and to count those ballots by hand, and for other purposes.”   
The main features of the bill include special rules for Presidential elections.

*Presidential elections will be conducted entirely with paper ballots;

*Each precinct will include no more than 500 paper ballots per ballot box;

*Paper ballots will be counted by hand in the precincts where voting
takes place and vote counting will be witnessed by a representative of
each political party withal candidate on the ballot "as well as any
interested member of the public."

HR 6200 takes the logical step of moving Washington's Birthday
celebration to election day during presidential election years
making it easier for working people to vote.

If passed, the bill takes effect in time for the November 2008
Presidential election.

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