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Go Erica ! by Michael Young

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If anyone can do it, you can .

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I found this on the sidewalk, in this condition, about a mile from my residence . So far as i know and recall, every flier i have from this past election with a Democratic Party candidate's photo on it and urging me to vote for the person, i found on the ground ; and any which may have been directed to my mailbox either did not make it or were filched by lock-picking memorabilia collectors . On the other hand, 6 pro-Trump fliers did make it to my mailbox .

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I believe that it is possible for people of public trust to betray their trust ; in matters small, and matters consequential .

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An open letter,

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Mister President Obama, Mister Secretary Kerry, come to Allentown . This is your point of contact, or it should be .

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Come and help motivate us to gather together in self-caucus to find out if what has been claimed in the return regarding our vote, (cast largely upon DRE machines without VVPAT), resembles the way we collectively recall voting . Come and help set aside futility which lies upon us --- not just about this past election --- but for all future ones ... for i can tell you there are some on the street who will publically say what you will not, "I think it was rigged" . Come and encourage us to forgive all who will publically say how we cast our vote, for whomever it may have been, from whomever it may have come . Come encourage us to to risk retribution by opposing publically and, may it be so, effectively one not famous for a forgiving nature .

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There is a gulf opening on the street, between the tribes, the colors --- and you are feeding our despair by taking an untrusted and untested result as final . You look a coward smiling at people whose deeds you should oppose, if you do not ; and showing love to one whose elevation you should question, and have not . You are letting us down ; and i believe that if this mood on the street finds its own outlet, as it inevitably must --- if it is not directed toward the effective to alloy the love you feel guided to show even Mr. Donald Trump --- people will be hurt . That may include me .

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Be daring, Mr. President . Brave the show trial the Republicans may put you through for your efforts . Brave impeachment and conviction and prison and even a death-sentence to reveal to the people of this country and this world that you have you own conviction . That you have The conviction . We are living in, "the fierce urgency of now", now ; and it is time for you to own your rhetoric .

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If fraud exists in our election industry, and if it is as broad and deep and persistant and as favorable to the right as i believe it may be, another 2 or 4 or 8 years would only be our ticket deeper into oblivion . With a chance to fortify their position with Supreme Court and Service Commandant appointments --- solely of their own choosing --- the right wing of the Republican Party may put the Democratic Party itself on show trial if it ever again rises to the level of challenge .

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Come also to listen to our clergy and our barbers, the latter especially ; for while a good Reverend rises to speak, a good barber rises to listen . The Democratic Party needs a farm system as badly as, (i believe), it needs honest elections . It needs local talent to bring local voters to the polls in off and off-off year elections . These people can put you in touch with those whom, though they may not have resources or a spotless record, can make up for this with aptitude and interest and the neighborhood credibility to make a strong run ; and serve well in office .

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The chance we can do these things without you is very small .

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Below are some items that i hope will be helpful and challenging to you ; (including some redundancy) .

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The following is edited and expanded from a response i made on my facebook timeline, (michaelcharlesyoung), to a post by 350, (dot org) .

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Please also see my timeline's previous posts on the matter : 09 November, 18 October, 03 August, and 09 June 2016 . Thank you .

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One approach to fighting a Trump administration's likely effects on global warming might be to contest the results .

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This could be attempted by helping voters in counties, (where DRE, {direct-recording electronic}, voting machines, {without Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail, VVPAT} were being used), (in states which went unexpectedly, or unexpectedly strongly, to Trump on election day), self-caucus to determine who it was we recall having voted for . If the such caucuses can be made sufficiently complete, and if they show results broadly different than those presented in the official return, participating voters could be asked to confirm our recollections with signed affidavits which could form the basis of class-action lawsuits challenging the returns ; (and the trade-secrecy protection of computerized voting machines’ software and hardware) . If sufficiently broad differences can be found, i believe a suit could be brought challenging the result itself .

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Here i note that each DRE machine, so far as i recall having been told, is put through a "logic and accuracy test" immediately prior to the opening of each polling place .

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As i recall, this involves a polling place worker booting the machine, and either during the boot process with instructions to the Basic Input-Output System, (BIOS), or following the loading of the Operating System, (OS), setting the system clock to an hour during which the election would be in progress . The worker then pretends to be a series of voters, casting ballots which would cover all voting options . The worker then verifies that these options have been faithfully recorded ; and if so, would clear or otherwise remove these test votes . The machine would then be rebooted for use in the election, with the system clock returned to the current time . It is important to note that the polling place worker would be acting in good faith here .

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However, i have enough experience programming computers to believe that with sufficient skills, ingenuity, tools and access, the computerized voting machine can be programmed to pass such test --- whether or not it is also programmed to be accurate or even honest during the election . Regarding this matter, i feel that Wikipedia's page on a bundle of software called a Rootkit may have relevant information .

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In (the at least imagined) light of the above, i believe that if broad discrepancies between the above-suggested self-caucusing and the official returns were to be found, a suit could be brought against the election result itself ... as it would mean that misrepresentation of the vote is/was either on the part of a great many self-revealed and sworn voters, or, intentionally, on the part of some skillful person or persons who had accessed and programmed, (or reprogrammed), the machines .

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I stress that i do not consider sworn self-declaration by voters to be a "recount" of an election, but a "real" count, (should sufficient numbers of voters participate) . In my opinion, should broad discrepancies implying that anyone's vote had been undercounted, (within the computerized voting equipment), be found between the sworn, self-declared vote and the, (largely machine generated), return, the two most likely explanations would be that either

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1) Many people who trustingly, (or grudgingly), cast ballots upon these DRE machines, (without VVPAT), would be lying in their subsequent affidavits regarding how they had voted .

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2) The machines would have been maliciously and skillfully programmed (or reprogrammed) to lie on the record, seamlessly and invisibly ; and to do so after passing a logic and accuracy test run by polling place workers acting in good faith . In such a case, there would never have been a count of the vote to begin with, only the pretense of a count .

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I note also that i believe criminal conspiracies have a tendency to leak in direct proportion to the number of people involved . Thus i believe that if election fraud is being conducted within the computerized voting equipment, the polling place workers themselves would probably be kept in the dark about it ; though they might be aware of irregularities such as, (hypothetically), not posting a polling place's unofficial return in the window following the election, (should this be required), for whatever duration of time this might be required .

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If it can be brought to this point, i hope that Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. style demonstrations --- well dressed, well mannered, determined people exercising our right to peaceably assemble and to petition our government --- you, President Barack Obama, specifically --- for a redress of grievances, will prompt you to put our suit before the Supreme Court .

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I live in Allentown, (Lehigh County), Pennsylvania ; where our polling places use DRE machines, (without VVPAT), (provided by Diebold) . According to the best information i have, our county delivered some 50-60% of our vote to Hillary Clinton . That seems low to me, and i have been trying to encourage the people of Allentown to self-caucus . The help of your organization and your followers would be appreciated .

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Our neighboring county, Northampton, is said to have delivered a plurality of its vote to Donald Trump . This may also be worth checking by means of self-caucus .

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Several counties, (including Miami-Dade), in Florida may likewise be worth the effort .

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In the hypothetical case that both Pennsylvania and Florida were stolen for Donald Trump by means of skillful fraud on the part of people who had programmed DRE machines without VVPAT, the wrong person would now be President-elect .

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Time seems quite short, though . I feel that protest by itself will not salvage the situation ; that demonstration had best be behind something with legal merit, (as i feel this would have) ; something which --- if you, President Obama, have the courage --- could forwarded directly to the Supreme Court .

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If, as seems likely, the Supreme Court deadlocks, i feel that the you, as President, have the authority to convene a Court Martial --- comprised of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and of each service’s Chief Legal Officer, and of each service's Chief Information Technology Officer, plus two randomly chosen, (from among those willing and still in the service), Congressional Medal of Honor winners --- to attempt likewise to reach a ruling . This would be because our nation’s military oaths of office state first, (and presumably foremost), an obligation to support and defend the constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic ; and secondly, for enlisted personnel, an obligation to obey the orders of the President of the United States, (the officer's like duty is implicit in the President's role as Commander in Chief) . Thus i feel that the military, to have a clear obligation of duty, is entitled, should the Supreme Court deadlock and the President convene Court Martial upon the matter, to issue a binding ruling .

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I would take this logic farther . As i see it, Article Two of the U.S. Constitution gives the President, (as Commander in Chief), no authority to require the military to accept transfer of power to a person whose fitness for command, or the legitimacy of whose election, or both, is seriously in doubt . In such case, i believe that the Joint Chiefs would have the right to convene Court Martial proceedings upon the matter over and above any order or measure to the contrary .

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Please also get in touch with verifiedvoting, (dot org), where they have maps of the counties withing Pennsylvania and Florida using DRE machines without VVPAT .

Rootkit code by Christiaan Colen

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