Monday, July 29, 2019

US Election Security

The security of all of our US elections is available right now.

The answer is being stopped by the Republican Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell (Mr. Turtle). Mr. Turtle had used the Senate majority leader's position to stop election security bills from getting a vote during the Obama administration as well.

Open source code is available now to:

Draw the smallest possible districts (for all elected offices) with the correct population; no partisan considerations involved.

Create voting machines that use an electronic ballot and a printed ballot (both can be reviewed by the voter before submitting a vote). A printed ballot is scanned into a collection, lock box while being double checked against the electronically submitted votes; instant auditing. An audit trail of voting is possible with printed ballots to be count later, as needed.


All this open sourced software can be checked for function and security, by multiple technical experts, before being installed on, “air gapped,” (not connected to any network, therefore not connected to an insecure network: Internet) device: voting machines.

The whole process could be completed before the 2020 elections if Mr. Turtle can be publicly, legally, held responsible for any voting problems encountered in any and all future elections.

Thursday, July 25, 2019

Democrats in the US Congress; Possibly Due for Reconsideration

The Democrats in the US House of Representatives are cowards!

In 2016 Democrats failed to win a majority sufficient to overcome the Electoral College kludge that Republicans were allowed, by Democrats' solo adherence to, “playing by the rules,” to create... We now have the 45 administration. Said administration has made a mockery of the rule of law and the Constitution, supported by an equally lawless (aiding and abetting or being an accomplice to criminal activity is a crime) Republican majority in the US Senate.

In 2018 the voters returned a Democratic majority to the US House. Our chosen legislators have absolutely refused to fulfill their primary, intended duty of impeaching the lawless buffoon that is the 45th President of these United States.

It would behoove the Democrats in the US House to remember that by not following through with the primary task assigned, protecting the Constitution against enemies foreign and domestic, they too become accomplices to criminal activity.

No, your job is not just to pass legislation, in the House, that the majority leader, Mr. Turtle, will block in the Senate.

The Democratic majority in the US House of Representatives must demonstrate that the rule of law and the balance of power, as prescribed in the Constitution, still have meaning in these United States of America.

Impeach 45!

Monday, July 15, 2019

Trump is a Symptom

Trump is a symptom, not the problem.

This problem started at the end of the Civil War. A, too large, minority of white America lost the artificial air of superiority that was racial prejudice and the extreme characteristic thereof: slavery.

The problem of the white, insecure, racist minority was, more recently, exacerbated by integration, voting rights, minority-majority... Exploded with the election of an African-American to two terms as the President of these United States.

When the majority that elected President Obama failed to turn up consistently at the polls the far, far right minority that had taken over the Republican party was able to elect an incompetent President, capable of being manipulated even more than George W. Bush, to pursue the finishing steps of creating a white nationalist, oligarchy here in the USA: seeding the Judicial branch of government with far, far right wing Jurists/Judges.

The solution, the restoration of majority rule and Democracy in the United States, lies in the diverse hands of the Democratic party.

One of the things that set Democrats apart from Republicans is the ability to allow disagreement amongst ourselves...

It ain't a bad thing to disagree as long as you can come together when the need arises!

We need to come together to take back majorities in state and federal legislatures; come together to elect Governors and win back the US Presidency!

VOTE!

Vote Blue no matter who!

If it bothers anybody terribly to hear that not everybody agrees with you about everything, your biggest problem can be found using a mirror.