rally time today (3/22)

Dear Friends,

It appears that several groups are pulling together for a rally at the capitol today at noon, followed by offering testimony on three election bills in one hearing that begins at 1:30.

Someone asked me to help them with testimony. Below is what I offered them. If I were to testify, it is what I would say. Personally, I think a 100 people could say the same thing and it wouldn’t register. What they need is to see a couple thousand people very angry over the fact that they gave a private company control of our elections (it’s not who votes but who counts the votes). Not only has it cost us voter integrity, it has cost us tens of millions of hard-earned taxpayer dollars.

Professional pickpockets is how we should regard our Legislature and SoS office.

Here’s the sample testimony. If anyone wants to use any or all of it, be my guest. See you later today.

Committee Members,

This isn’t Rocket Science.

In a constitutional republic, governments are instituted to secure our rights…

…deriving their just power to do so from consent of the governed.

Consent of the governed. 

The governed are the people. Consent comes from the people.

If elections don't belong to the people, there is no consent, and there is no authority to govern.

Our state constitution says (Article 1-22):
”there shall be no hindrance or impediment to the right of qualified voters to exercise the elective franchise.”

The right to exercise the elective franchise inherently infers the right to exercise an honest elective franchise.

If the elective franchise is corrupted in any way, or stolen, it is not an elective franchise…

…and the people are reduced to slavery…

…because the right to vote is the right that secures all other rights—short of bearing arms.

The right to exercise the elective franchise also infers the right to exercise the FULL elective franchise.

Votes don't count themselves.

The right to exercise the elective franchise includes the right to count votes, or at least the right to watch them be counted.

It's never been easier to make vote-counting fully transparent to everyone and verifiable by everyone.

As it stands right now, the people have NO ability to verify vote counts.

This is a very serious problem.

It’s actually an existential threat to the entire American experiment is self-government and Liberty.

There is NO transparency and verifiability available whatsoever to the people to whom our elections belong.

Who has done this to us? 

Our Legislature and SoS office have done this to us.

You have usurped power from the governed and used it to take away our right to Watchfulness in our vote-counting.

You have unconstitutionally and unlawfully delegated that power to a private corporation that counts our votes in secret, with secret software, AWAY from the watchful prying eyes of the people to whom elections belong. 

There is only one reason for such secrecy—fraud.

Our elections now amount to nothing more than a corporation-controlled charade.

And we are very upset about it.

The machines can't be trusted. They should not be trusted. We have no obligation to trust them.

The Salvation of the State is NOT Trust, but WATCHFULNESS. 

Corporations, especially those who can hide ownership, are more susceptible to bribes than the poor single mother Evnen constantly tries to denigrate.

Voting and vote-counting both belong with the People.

They are the means of our all-important CONSENT.

My final thought:

Article I-26 of our state constitution:
"...all powers not herein delegated, remain with the people."

God bless, friends.

Robert J. Borer