On Voting, & Other Scams

To: Ron Ewart

Re: His NewsWithViews.com column of Oct. 15

Title: 'Voting Hasn't Worked, So Now What?'

(He wants to help spearhead a campaign to clean up politics from the grassroots up; invoking the wisdom of Thomas Jefferson's observation: "Educate and inform the whole mass of the people…They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.")

Oct. 15

Dear Ron,

Many thanks for your column, and initiative.  Keep up your spirits in landing this vision.

It's too bad that this spirit, of involvement, didn't surface in time for a phalanx of such individuals to join in the campaign of the True The Vote people to clean up every state's voter reg roll policies, and establish solid 'voter integrity' ID requirements. 

As it is, I will not be voting, because I refuse to take part in a charade.  (My state does''t require any voter ID; the person who shows up at the voting precinct just signs a name against a printed name on the reg roll.  We could be anybody.  Just as I doubt that the names on the reg rolls are screened very carefully for eligibility [duplication, etc.].)  I have been living out of the country for many years, and just didn't realize the extent of the corruption going on.  There should have been a major boycotting of voting years ago in this country, until such voting clean-up campaigns were instituted - and including an in-depth investigation of the electronic voting machines.  If they can't be demonstrated to be tamperproof, they should be junked for [being] the junk they are, and we go back to paper ballots, with a clear paper trail.   

Anyway, just by way of appreciating your attitude and intention.  I wish you well in your endeavor.  But nothing - nothing - will come of ANY of it, if you don't clean up the voting scene itself.

'Stan' Stanfield