House Blocks Paper Ballot Voting Help
Yesterday, while spreading democracy-tipped bombs around the world, House Republicans blocked a bill designed to help states convert to verifiable paper ballot voting systems.
Paper ballot voting systems produce a paper trail, so that an election can be recounted and verified, unlike the 2004 election, which Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has clearly shown was stolen.
Safe Elections Cost Too Much
After spending millions of dollars for easily hacked paperless touch-screen machines, and after spending almost $330 million in recent years to ensure honest elections in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, and after losing track of billions of dollars in the Pentagon year after year after year…what is the excuse of Republicans for not helping make sure the election of the leader of the free world is a fair and legitimate election?
The Republicans blocked the bill because, they said, it would cost too much. Maybe even as much as $685 million!
Keep in mind that the price tag on a single B2 Stealth Bomber exceeds a billion dollars. We can’t spend half that towards having a fair election in the USA?
America Needs Verifiable Elections
New Jersey Representative Rush Holt, the sponsor of the bill, had this to say:
I’d like to ask the opponents how much spending is too much to have verifiable elections in the United States. I note that many people who opposed this legislation supported spending almost $330 million in recent years to provide election assistance in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. I would have hoped those who supported efforts to export democracy abroad would be equally committed to strengthening democracy here at home.
I don’t buy the “costs too much” excuse. Republicans have virtually broken the bank and looted the country for the past 8 years. They don’t care about the money, and neither do the Democrats, for that matter.
The bottom line is that many Congresspersons do not want Americans to be able to verify their elections.
Why is that?
I’ve got several possible answers, forming and floating around in my head…none of them very comforting.
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