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<div style="font-size: 10pt;"><div dir="auto">How about no incumbent need be voTed for? </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Some of us independents, anarchists, DemExit, libertarians, socialists, Sandinistas, progressives, near Left, far left, far Right, far Out and/or whatever we or the Owners call ourselves in this moment in time...see nothing but hyper-local voting (school, city, county, library boards) to be useful or possibly trustworthy. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Sure, register, vote. It is important. Go to the polls with your eyes and ears open to pay attention to the level of Cheat. Was it easy or difficult to register? Is there same-day or online registration in your state? May felons vote? Are absentee ballots counted? What type of ID does it take to register and to claim a ballot at the polls? Are those IDs easy or difficult for the working poor to obtain? Is there early voting and if so, how many days and a
re there nights & weekends, particularly Sunday, for the poor and the car-less?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">On voting day: are there enough polling places? Do they open and close at the correct time? Are the election judges representative of the diversity of the ward? Is there electioneering or flat-out lying about the day of election? Look at the ballot. How are <span style="font-size: 10pt;">candidates listed </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">in each race? Alphabetically, by who turned in their petition first, or by which is the preferred Party candidate? Which races have only one choice? Why would that be? Make a note of the judges' names for later observation of possible corruption. What type of machines or ballots are used and who owns the companies who make them? Dig deeper into shareholders and past owners/scandals behind the machines in previous years. </span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><br></span></div><div dir="
auto"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">After the election, did the exit poll numbers match the announced winner? If the numbers did not match, was a recount taken? Was the recount fair? Did every candidate listed first on the ballot win? Did every Party-preferred candidate win? Did the candidates with Super-PAC s or dark money win, and which Big Donor-Owners bought those elections? What votes would those Donor-Owners expect to see in the next year? Will we see that happen? Did a single progressive, anti- war, Medicare 4 All, Green, Libertarian or People's populist candidate get enough votes to scare the establishment or even win? </span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">That is why I go to the polls. Call me pessimistic, yet I do not expect fair elections with genuine outcomes in the Heart of the Empire responsible for regime change all over the world. It is only in our hearts we wish it were so.</
span></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div id="LGEmailSignatureBox" dir="auto"><div dir="auto" font-size:9pt;"=""><i>Sent from my LG Phoenix 2, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone</i></div></div></div><div style="font-size: 10pt;"><div id="LGEmailHeader" dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">------ Original message------</div><div dir="auto"><b>From: </b>Carl G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss<peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net></peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net></div><div dir="auto"><b>Date: </b>Wed, Jun 13, 2018 8:06 AM</div><div dir="auto"><b>To: </b>peace-discuss;</div><div dir="auto"><b>Cc: </b>Peace;</div><div dir="auto"><b>Subject:</b>[Peace-discuss] Singapore & Illinois' 11th Congressional district</div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><div class="ApplePlainTextBody"><<a href="https://consortiumnews.com/2018/06/13/democrats-put-partisanship-before-prospects-for-peace/">https://consortiumnews.com/2018/06/13/democrats-put-partisanship-before-prospects-for-peace/</a>>
;<br><br>'Russiagate' and Korea mean that Democrats shouldn't be given control of Congress in the fall elections - even if it means voting for Republicans.<br><br>—CGE<br><br></div></div>
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