Your Rights as a Voter are Rapidly Disappearing

On this eve of a national Presidential election, I'd like to say please vote. Vote your conscience, but please vote.

Our rights as American voters is under attack. Many of us have been threatened, intimidated, removed without cause from registration rolls, forced to show identification despite our already having done so when we registered, and the hours during which we vote have come under attack. If we work for certain right-wing-managed companies, we are told how to vote. And if we do manage to vote, we are surrounded at the polls by "observers" who do far more than observe. We vote on electronic voting machines that don't provide paper records and were made by companies with extreme partisan leanings and which may well be selectively counting ballots. Ballot workers are often unabashedly partisan.

A number of states have been taking and will continue to take extreme measures to prevent you from voting. The purported cause is widespread voter fraud-- which absolutely is not happening. In-person voter fraud is almost nonexistent.

I'll be writing about all this over the next couple of weeks.