- By Bahram Maskanian - January 09, 2004

Millions of American voters are expected to use electronic voting machines, manufactured by the nation-less corporations, in the upcoming elections. These machines, depending on their geographical locations and voting districts are rigged to produce different results. I am just amazed at the lack of widespread public concern over countless election frauds, security flaws in all voting machines, and why it has not sparked an extensive public debate and action to remove all voting machines and replace them with verifiable and honest paper ballots, used all over the world. The answer is an obvious one, since Republicans and Democrats are in this together as the permanent cast of the camouflaged dictatorship as a fake democracy SHOW, why would they bother to change anything?

I refer you to wise words of Frederick Douglass, he said:

- - Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will. - -

We, the American people, must wake the hell up and take a much closer look at the United States of Nation-Less Corporations governing system for what it really is, a rotten corrupt parliamentary dictatorship, to say the least, which means our votes don’t count and regardless of who is selected to become the new US President / CEO, after each multi billion dollar election show, and who is selected as our supposed new senator and congressman, the camouflaged dictatorship as a fake democracy SHOW, will go on as usual. - And since all elections; (local, state and federal) are rigged / predetermined by the Republicans and Democrats political party bosses in conjunction with the board of directors of nation-less corporations, using their own tallying / voting machines, manufactured by the nation-less corporations who are spending billions of dollars to put the show on the road, nothing is ever going to change for better.

The obvious fact remains that as long as we, the people have no true representation, the US parliamentary dictatorship and one (1) political party system will continue its deadly existence. The evident fact is that the United States of Nation-Less Corporations’, two (2) political parties, Democrats and Republicans may exhibit some trivial differences between themselves to fool the public, but in reality Democrats and Republicans are the two (2) wings of the same brutal and predatory bird of prey, which have been preying on the US public and millions of others worldwide. We must also never lose sight of the fact that US President / CEO and Congress work for those who paid for their elections and expensive book deals, homes, presidential library, gifts and trips. Not the public.

How Does A Verifiable And Honest Paper Ballot System Of Election Works?

To adequately conduct an honest paper ballot and fraud free election with adequate auditing procedures in place is very simple and it costs the fraction of the fake ones. It begins with each local neighborhoods, counties and districts organizing their own citizen election committees (CEC) to oversee and supervise each polling station in their locality and count the votes. A citizen election committee (CEC), at the state level shall receive the final counts from each local CEC and transmit the results to the federal citizen election committee (CEC). All counted and certified paper ballot votes and tallying-shit reports are held in a safe and secure place locally by the citizen election committee (CEC) for period of at least one year. Simple, is it not?

Instant Run-Off Voting System

What is Instant Runoff Voting (IRV)

Instant runoff voting is a winner-take-all, constitutionally protected, voting system that ensures a winning candidate will receive an absolute majority of votes rather than a simple plurality. IRV eliminates the need for runoff elections by allowing voters to rank their candidates in order of preference.

IRV is not a form of full or proportional representation although the Choice Voting method of full representation relies on a similar method of casting and counting ballots.

Our current voting system in the United States, it is an extremely undemocratic system, because it forces voters to pick one candidate amongst many candidates. This prevents the voter from actually expressing his or her opinion because forced to choose only one of the many candidates. If his or her selection does not win, the vote is wasted. Often times, the voter is forced to vote as a way to prevent a candidate from winning, and thus generally voting for a second-best selection instead of for the candidate who truly represents his or her politics. All because of the one vote, one candidate system of Choice Voting method.

Choosing between many candidates and voting for just one robs the voters from the ability and the chance to fully express their opinion. Instant Run-Off Voting is the only truly democratic manner of voting in a democracy in which the voters select their favorite candidates in ranking order. When in the voting booth, the voter ranks all of the candidates in order of preference, first, second, third and so on. The voter is presented with a few potential choices and he or she will then rank them in order of his or her preferences among the candidates. It is as easy as one, two, three, because voters ranking their preferences.

Counting the ballots is equally as easy because you count first preference votes. If anybody got a majority of the first preference votes, that candidate is elected. It is a majority rule system. However, if nobody gets the majority, you eliminate the lowest ranking candidate because he or she has the least amount of votes and thus the least support with no chance of getting elected.

Instant Run-Off Voting will not create the feeling of quote, - - wasting one’s vote - - for the participating public because they will have the ability to influence their run-off preferences by indicating their second preference candidate. Votes are then transferred to second preference to get a majority.

Instant Run-Off Voting is a super easy voting system used all over the world.

Instant Run-Off Voting is used in the United States:

Instant Run-Off Voting is used in local elections in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Instant Run-Off Voting is been used in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Instant Run-Off Voting will be used in San Francisco.

Instant Run-Off Voting is used by college football for the Heisman trophy and in major league baseball for selecting the M.V.P, Most Valuable Player.

Instant Run-Off Voting is used by the Academy Awards.

Instant Run-Off Voting is used also by the Political Science Association.

Instant Run-Off Voting is used by the Utah Republican Party to elect officers and nominate candidates.

Instant Run-Off Voting is not a Left-Wing solution. It is not a Right-Wing solution. Rather it is the only right and just solution for electing true government by the people for the people through a decent fraud free election system.

Instant Run-Off Voting is the only solution that will work and has been working.

I urge everybody who is disgusted with our voting system and does not want to continue voting for the lesser of two (2) evils by being forced to vote against what you hate for someone you hate less, rather than voting with your conscience, to do the following.

Join the wide spread movement of concerned Americans and support Instant Run-Off Voting. Write to your government representatives and demand for legislation replacing our current system with the Instant Run-Off Voting system.

Also Read

How the Electoral College Works
Abolish the Electoral College
http://www.venusproject.com/ecs/electoral_college.html