Yes, ladies and gentlemen, it is I, the pesky Yosef once again asking for your help as I pursue my wildly optimistic goal of raising $10,000 for Obama. Today, I will make an offer I have made before: I will MATCH the total of donations up to $250. (No, I can't match every $250 INDIVIDUAL contribution, but it would be a VERY COOL thing to see.)
You can make your contribution here. And remember, I will MATCH the first $250 in contributions (but I'd love to get more!!).
And now, on to my fiery RANT!
It is obvious to me that Barack Obama will win the most votes and carry states sufficient to elect him president. That is, if all of the votes were actually counted and recorded correctly. But I'll tell you this: if there is a major discrepancy between the polls and the exit polls on one hand and the actual vote reported on the other, then there has been a THEFT. If McCain and Caribou Barbie STEAL this election, which is their only hope of victory now, I hope for one thing:
REVOLUTION.
Peaceful. Non-violent. But passionate, in the streets, mass demonstration, no, we ain't gonna put up with this crap passionate. All across this country. If, for example, McCain wins an upset with 51.2% (the exact figure the admittedly dubious Steve Spoonamore predicts it will be), then I call bullshit. (NOTE: Spoonamore's other prediction, that the election will be rigged to give McCain a 3 electoral vote margin, is mathematically impossible prior to the actual casting of electoral votes.) We already let these Republican criminals steal Florida in 2000 and Ohio and New Mexico in 2004. (Greg Palast lays out a devastating case about NM in particular.) With our nation in a death spiral thanks to Bush, Cheney, and McCain, we simply cannot--for the sake of the world's future--just sit by and DO NOTHING ABOUT IT. We need millions of people in the street if the Thugs try to steal it again. We will also need high powered computer experts to fight back.
Kossack Techies, educate me. I need answers to these questions:
- To what extent will votes be cast on voting machines that do not provide a paper trail of any kind?
- Are results reported to the national election center hackable?
- Has Charlie Crist set us up for defeat in Florida by electronic theft?
- What steps can WE take to prevent electronic vote flipping, results hacking, and other technical tricks?
- Does the Obama campaign have a high powered team of CS people capable of preventing the electronic theft of our votes?
- I know Obama's people have filed suit in Michigan to prevent the disenfranchisement of voters whose houses have been foreclosed. Are there similar legal actions in progress to prevent electronic theft?
- In what states are we most vulnerable to Republican stealing? In what states is the election process controlled by McCain campaign people?
8. IS THIS NIGHTMARE GOING TO HAPPEN TO US AGAIN, OR ARE WE GOING TO SAVE OUR COUNTRY THIS TIME?
I need to know. Because I've been around awhile, and Obama-Biden feels like a winner to me. I can accept losing fair and square. Hey, that's life.
But by God, I'm not going to allow anyone to take from me what is rightfully mine--the assurance that my two beautiful grandchildren will grow up in a nation governed by calm, rational, talented people like Barack and Joe.
Not this time.
Because by God, I'll be in the streets if it happens again.