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Radical Activist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 10:11 PM
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Disrupting Electoral College Meetings
I just thought of this idea as part of another thread.

Let's say there are still questions about the legitimacy of the election results in certain states like Ohio, Florida, and other states that used Diebold voting machines. Wouldn't it be appropriate to disrupt the electoral college meetings in those states and prevent them from voting until election disputes are resolved? If the election has been stolen (and I don't claim to know if it was or not) and the courts and the Democratic leaders aren't stopping it, then isn't this the only way to preserve free government in the US? I know people poo poo civil disobedience but could this be an effective way to try to save democracy and freedom in America? Wouldn't it be right to try to keep the electoral college from meeting in certain states until we know what the true results are?

I'd be interested to know what other people think or if some groups are already discussing this.
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In Truth We Trust Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 10:15 PM
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1. Whatever it takes!
I advocate doing anything and everything to right this wrong!!!
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Timebound Donating Member (454 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-25-04 03:54 AM
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2. Great idea!
Radical Activist, the same exact thought has occured to me. If we get enough people to pay attention and attend then it could definately work. Just look at all the chaos in Ukraine right now, that they 'only' have around 200,000 people protest. There are like 49 million people in all of Ukraine. If we could get the same numbers, thought not 'huge' in comparison to the 55 million+ that voted Kerry, if they saw that kind of crowd marching towards them the electorial college would panic and probably wouldn't vote.

What if we could get 200,000 people to hold up Ohio and Flordia's electorial college meetings? The MSM can only ignore things so long...
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Radical Activist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-25-04 11:14 AM
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3. That's all it would take
If 100,000 people from across America showed up in Ohio and 100,000 showed up in Florida they could stop the electoral college meeting from happening, force the media to take notice, and force a full examination of what happened with the electronic voting fraud. I think that kind of direct action is all we have left if the voting system has failed to accurately reflect the will of the people.
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