.....I continue to strive to convince you and the other leaders and members of the dKos community to seize the opportunity to drive a Non-Partisan, major effort to rally all American Citizens to demand equivalent access to a verifiable, unambiguous process for selecting the President and Vice President of our Nation.
I have posted this plea and details at:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/11/7/102449/048
In response to questions and comments on previous related Diaries, I am providing the following update:
1. I am suggesting rapid development of a central place, sponsored here at dKos, to discuss a strategy by which we bring the disenfranchisement issue before all of America, asap.
2. I am suggesting we focus on a system for ensuring verifiable, secure, and equivalently accessible ability to enable every member of our Democracy to participate in the franchise.
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3. I do not advocate in any way that that the authority or administration of the election process be shifted from the States to the Federal government; I am advocating a standard system for the election of the President and Vice President and think such a standard system would be of value in any election process at the State and local level.
4. I am not advocating illegal activity, civil war, secession from the union, or.....
5. I am advocating a statement of Our Mandate As Citizens of the American Democracy -- we must mass, stand together, demand that the franchise be fair for all, and do that in a way never seen before and that we should organize and do that before 12 December 2004.
Throughout history, important alterations in the structure and operation of countries and corporations has happened, sometimes very rapidly, when a large number of stakeholders stand together and unflenchingly demand change.
So, I support the notion that with aggressive leadership the resources exist, now, for us to mobilize our fellow citizens and call a halt to the current disenfranchised status of our citizenry.
The mandate that matters is Our Mandate as Citizens to admit no barrier, accept no excuse, and fear no adversary when the core of our Democracy is being threatened. A handful of patriots made it stick at the outset of the Republic and they did it without 'the internets.'
So, what's our excuse, now, not to honor and protect what so many for so long have risked everything to provide us this opportunity to either do it or lose it.
Thank you.
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A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.
--Martin Luther King