2008 WILL BE STOLEN (UNDER PRESENT SYSTEM)

YOUR VOTE MAY BE NULLIFIED BY THE "SILENT STATE"

YET CITIZENS CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE...EVEN IN THE "SILENT STATE"

A CALL TO ACTION... GIVE US BACK OUR VOTE..."RIGHT" NOW!

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I am a Pennsylvanian - and so are you, especially in this year of 2008. We face a serious SILENT Crisis and MUST Act. Will you help?

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I call Pennsylvania the "Silent State" for few are talking about our plight and concurrently our impact on the Nation. Pennsylvania may just be the key battleground state determining the next President and Control of Congress ... yet we predominantly will be voting on paperless DRE touchscreens.

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If this remains, then 2008 will be "stolen"! If one cannot prove "reported "results, if there is no way to recount, no way to get back to source entry/ballot of voter then have we voted? How will we know - we won't.

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If we don't know "reported" results are the people's choices then have we had an election? NO! If no vote... no election....then won't 2008 be stolen from rightful deciders?

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Most of PA State Leaders - of both parties - ignore the problems of paperless DREs (not that DREs with printers are acceptable). The media in PA and nationally are SILENT too.

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My nightmare is Election 2008, with determining decision made by Pennsylvania...yet with no way to prove the count...not even a Chad ...hanging or otherwise....or is it, we will all be hung by Pennsylvania, in particular?

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All Americans will "lose" their voice if Pennsylvania is the decider. All Americans have a stake in removing the gag on and in PA ,,, and helping to ensure that State (along with others) has voter marked paper ballots and precinct based optical scan or hand count in November and effective oversight system to ensure smooth running and full voter participation. Yes, there is more needed to be done but first we MUST have the actual ballots cast by voters, not the SILENCE of secretly programmed machine bytes determining who may be the - "the" not "our" -next President ... selected not elected!

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Pennsylvania unchanged will be far far worse than 2000/2004 -worse than Florida/Ohio - for we have NOTHING at all to check or recount for there is nothing there. No real Vote...no real Election.

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How sadly ironic it would be if the State where our Nation began, where our Declaration of Independence and Constitution were forged, where the idea that people are capable of self governing, that government exists to serve us and all power flows from and back to the people was proclaimed, is the place where our rights end. Pennsylvania may be - nay, will be, the SILENCING of those great ideas/ideals and the death of our representative democracy unless action is immediately taken to give us back our vote and have a real election.. As we in CVI say... Democracy begins with the integrity of OUR vote...and ends without it.

Well if PA decides the election based on the present unprovable - SILENT to the intent of voters - system - Integrity is gone, for there is no way to prove, thus will our Democracy end. Yes, it is that serious for once lost, how will we regain? Can we...or will something else take its' place?

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We must focus our fight to change Pennsylvania in one of its' largest counties, Bucks. The Citizens are aware, more so every day, they are not silent though the majority Commissioners must be for they do not hear and do not care (read editorial below) Bucks is where the first American flag was delivered to George Washington who was camped at the Molland House in Bucks County. It is where it was first flown on what was becoming the United States of America.

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It is up to Bucks to raise the flag again... the battle for our rights..our vote -OUR Vote...and set the example and replace all DREs whether Congress acts on legislation timely or not. We must do the morally right thing...as quickly yet efficiently/effectively as possible. It can and must start county by county so by Election Day 2008, every voter in PA (and ideally all the USA) cast their vote (the REAL Vote) on a ballot that is proof of citizen choice not of secretly programmed "fatally flawed" machines.

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This means that All Americans must now also become Pennsylvanians and Bucks Countians, for your vote could be nullified by the former ... are you willing to let a worse situation than 2000/2004 occur?

If not, then we ask in the name of those who went before and gave blood and effort to give us freedom and for the sake of our children and future generations that our great ideals, backed by the Voice of citizens through their Vote, is NOT SILENCED, that it still survive because WE today took a stand ... removed the Silence...and raised our voices together and kept raising until heard and heeded,,,by November Election by We the People ... an Election, NOT Selection by unproven report or court decision.

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Abraham Lincoln stated "Elections belong to the People. It is their decision."

Let's make it our decision ... starting with the critical county and state that could decide 2008.

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Right now please call Governor Rendell (D) at 717-787-2500. Call Bucks County Commissioners Cawley and Martin (both R) at 215-348-6000. Tell them you are their constituents too and they are your representatives for their decision impacts your vote ... that it's time to END THE SILENCE...show leadership in the best tradition of Bucks, Pennsylvania's and America's history and ideals. Replace ALL paperless DREs with voter marked paper ballots and either optical scan or hand count. GIVE US BACK OUR VOTE... our first right, as Tom Paine stated, the right from which all others derive.

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Yes, we need more but we must begin be having a ballot completed directly by the voter first. Call now and have everyone you know call till the Silence is banished by the Voice and Choice of We the People. YOUR Vote and OUR future may depend on it.