Saturday, September 26, 2020

Attempted Access to Ballot Tampering...



First)  Paper ballots are the most difficult to tamper with; come with a paper ballot based, audit trail built-in.  The 45 administration appears to be expecting help (very probably from Russians) with votes.  Absentee/mail-in ballots use a paper ballot that is not able to be accessed remotely, usually has both human and machine readable text/information on it and is easily checked and confirmed.  

Second) Electronic ballots, stored as a data file on a computer, have been documented (at hacker conference experiments) to be relatively easy (for talented hackers) to use in vote manipulation.   Exclusively electronic ballots do not generate a paper, back-up copy (audit trail)  of every ballot and can not be easily checked and verified for vote manipulation.

The orange menace is assisting any and all who would hack a voting system for him by attempting to get as many people as possible voting in person, on a computer terminal/server, electronic ballot system.

Wednesday, September 23, 2020

The need for a Federal Law Enforcement Inspector General...

There has appeared, for decades, to be a need for a federal agency to hold police accountable for their activity. Police unions defend everybody all the time and local prosecutors hesitate to mess with their associated police departments.

It does not seem to be getting through to the local, county, and other, law enforcement agencies that they are not judge, jury and, too often, executioner.

That three officers watched while a knee to the neck killed a cuffed, face down man; didn't occur to officers to check to see if the suspect that they were after was already in custody, let alone that they were at the wrong address; reported the correct license plate, but didn't check the state that issued it...

Time and again police refuse the responsibility for mistakes made on the job that injure and kill; don't care to understand that they have great responsibility with the power of their office.

 

There needs to be a federal, Law Enforcement Inspector General; a database that keeps officers, fired for cause, from moving to a new job (in law enforcement) at a different department; a penitentiary that keeps convicted officers out of the incarcerated population that might resent their presence to death.

That requires a Blue Tsunami because today's Republicans are against responsibility and everything else a Democrat might support.

Saturday, September 19, 2020

Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Passing, and the Threat to Democracy it Exacerbates...

 

The passing of the Notorious RBG (Rest in Peace, Ruth Bader Ginsburg) takes the death of Democracy in these United States of America one step closer to the grave.

 

In the name of Democracy, RBG and John Lewis (who preceded her in death): it's time to get into some, “Good Trouble.”


The Republicans, and the Republicans alone, complained about Democratic, judicial appointments as a means to use the federal courts for a power grab; to, “legislate from the bench.” Then, when their hold on legislatures (state and federal) couldn't/wouldn't legislate for their benefit, Republicans unabashedly used the ability to appoint justices, “to legislate from the bench.” Republicans are using the courts to try to reverse the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, Women's Rights, the ACA, etc...


The Republicans objected strenuously to the rejection of Robert Bork's appointment to the SCOTUS, even though he did get a vote (which he lost in a bi-partisan manner).


Republicans objected strenuously to Democrats eliminating the filibuster for lower, federal, court appointments in the Obama (44) administration... Then used their simple, Senate majority to fill hundreds of lower court vacancies in the 45 administration.


The Republicans once again demonstrated their unbounded hypocrisy by eliminating the filibuster for SCOTUS appointments.


The Republicans eliminated the possibility of consideration, let alone the appointment, of Merrick Garland to the SCOTUS during the presidential election year of 2016; promise a vote for the orange menace's appointment to SCOTUS in the presidential election year of 2020.


It puts beyond discussion the power of the VOTE... The need for everybody to exercise their responsibility to VOTE!


Democrats must elect a President Biden and VP Kamala Harris, keep the majority in the US House and get a Democratic majority in the US Senate; get as many Democrats, on the entire ballot, elected to all government offices.


Then the American Bar Association must review all the justices, appointed without the possibility of filibuster, for possible conflicts of interest; competence in the performance of their judicial responsibilities.


The Republicans have abandoned their oath of office, to protect and defend the Constitution from enemies foreign and domestic... The Republicans refused to use their Constitutionally assigned power, as a co-equal branch of the federal government, to impeach an indicted, clearly in violation of Constitutional restrictions, President.


Democracy in these United States of America is in dire straights, as never before, and the voters must step up and realize the power of EVERY SINGLE VOTE!