Only One Rule in a Democracy: One Person, One Vote

Dear Speaker Pelosi --

I say a clip today of you declaring that the superdelegates should follow "the will of the people." The will of which people? The Will of (Only the Healthy) People?

Housebound, bedbound, and disabled people in Caucus States were forbidden the Absentee Ballot so their precious voices and their will do not show up in the so-called elected delegates, their voices disappeared by 16% of the result in each Caucus State. These people don't matter to us Democrats? I spent my whole life since JFK was shot down on my 19th birthday fighting for the rights of the voiceless.

Superdelegates should be asked to THINK what the will of the people really is and judge wisely. The pledged delegates are a horrible indicator of the will of the people. (About 2000 voters gets you a pledged delegate in Idaho & about it takes about 11,000 voters to get you a delegate in a primary state.) The will of the people? I'm ashamed that such an emminent person in a place to educate us & reform us could be so hypocritical.

Intervene? I pray that you intervene on behalf of the true voice of voters, not snarled & inconsistent & arbitrary Party "rules." There is only one rule in a democracy: one person, one vote.

Sincerely,

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By my Life & Sacred Honor - Count the Votes!

Dear Superdelegate,

If I lost my vote, it would be an amputation. Suppose it was YOUR vote which was chosen not to count? I can't bear to think about it. It would break my heart & my very belief in what I thought it meant to be an American.

By my Life & Sacred Honor, I never imagined that votes would be suppressed on such a massive scale with the indifference of my beloved Democratic Party. Since JFK was shot down on my 19th birthday, I've fought for the only equality we are guaranteed in our America -- one voice, one vote.

The VOTERS in FL & MI are blameless. They are citizens whose ONLY voice is their vote. I tremble to think that my Democrats would not fight tooth & claw to count all the votes.

I'm within an inch of feeling completely abandoned by my Democratic Party. Apparently the suppressed votes of housebound & bedbound older women who were forbidden Absentee Ballots in Caucus States don't matter? And we'll just burn the books -- I mean the votes -- of many Florida & Michigan voters' precious votes? If the Republicans were doing this, we'd call it a Mockery of Democracy.

I beg you to count every FL & MI vote or to re-vote.

Sincerely,

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100,000 Disappeared Popular Votes in Caucus States

Dear Superdelegate: I beg you to add to your thinking re the nomination & the General Election participation, the horrible & hidden & huge
Voter Suppression of Hillary's core voters, housebound older women who,
forbidden the Absentee Ballot in Caucus States, are cheated, disappeared in the pledged delegates & popular votes count.

I am so grateful for your support of Hillary, the most electable & astonishingly prepared candidate of my lifetime. She is a champion for so many whose dispossessed sorrow or rage is transformed to courage at her example. You must forgive me if I sound a little overheated about the Caucus Scandal. It's been burning in my stunned brain since January. This information is distilled from 2400 volunteer phone calls.

The Will of the People?
Not housebound & bedbound older women people who are forbidden Absentee Ballots in Caucus States. "I can't caucus, honey, I'm a cripple,"said 87-yr-old Vera. "Just because I'm sick, doesn't mean I can't think," said 82-yr-old Ruth.
Not the blameless voters (also people except in the Democratic Party?) in Florida & Michigan who futilely imagined that their vote was their voice in their beloved Democratic Party.

In the Texas primary, Hillary's voters were plus 4. On the same day in the caucus with Absentee Ballots forbidden, they were minus 12. A 16% swing!
Suppose we had only seen the Caucus Results in Texas!
That's what happened in all those other Caucus States.
It’s a Mockery of Democracy.

Upon my life and sacred honor, I always believed that the Democratic Party stood in essence for the voice and vote of each American? (Suppose 16% of black voters were forbidden to vote for Mr. Obama? Would there not be an outcry? Of course.) Superdelegates are designed to see this kind of hidden & horrible injustice against democracy & take it into account.

I have so much more specific info on this 16% Awful Caucus Skew. I am desperate to get the info out. When this story gets reported, the superdelegate dynamic will change. Sincerely, & heartbroken at the death of democracy, 16% Awful Caucus Skew

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Caucuses are The Big Lie -- The Introductory Post

The Greatest Story Ever Untold

this election year

is just how anti-democracy caucuses really are.

Shamefully, caucuses silence
15% of Hillary’s voters, older women.
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Every 8th volunteer phone call I made into a caucus state got me,

“Oh no, honey, I don’t dare go out to caucus.

I’m off-balance.”

There is an invisible epidemic of older women

who have a terrible fear of falling.

Mr. Obama’s position is essentially ‘The people have spoken; you can’t go against the will of the people.’ Which people? American Democracy: Only Healthy People Need Apply.

It was said of the aged Elizabeth Cady Stanton, founding mother of the women’s right to vote, “she was weak of body, but keen of mind.” With no absentee ballot, these keen Hillary voters are unheard, disappeared citizens. Honest superdelegates will want to consider what the will of the people really adds up to.

Note that in Texas, Hillary was +4 in the primary and -12 in the caucus
on the same day!

Suppose we had only looked at the caucus results? A 16% swing. Hillary’s voters many pledged delegates and much popular vote in all those caucus states
are missing.

The caucuses debacle is a scandal in our beloved democracy.

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"If I Can't Be There In My Body, I Don't Count"

comment on Katharine Q. Seelye NYT
Clinton’s persistence

The so-called Math will be re-understood when The Greatest Story Ever Untold finally gets seriously reported by some smart reporter who loves actual democracy.

Suppose you and the non-lemming among the superdelegates knew that 15% of Hillary's voters in Caucus States had been cheated of their rightful share of pledged delegates & popular votes?

Every 8th volunteer phone call I made into Caucus State after Caucus State got me a Hillary voter who said, "Oh, no, honey, I don't dare caucus, I'm off-balance." No ride would help these folk who do not go out. The will of the people? The will of (healthy) people, apparently.

In Texas, Hillary was +4 in the primary and -12 in the caucus on the same day! A 16% swing! Suppose we had only seen the caucus results as in Iowa etc? It's the Absentee Ballot, Dumbish Folks!

Why do you think that 28% of Hillary's voters say they'll sit out November? Not because they aren’t fiercely loyal lifelong Democrats. Because they have been silenced, disappeared. THEY know that this pledged delegate & popular vote count is malarkey. THEY weren't counted. The Caucus Debacle is an appalling anti-democracy scandal. It is exactly the kind of injustice that the non-lemming superdelegates were designed to account for.

If you’d heard person after person lament, “If I can’t be there in my body, I don’t count,” you’d demand & plead that they have a say in the superdelegates’ thinking. Where are their pledged delegates and popular vote? Why does no one speak up for them?

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Dismayed by Speaker Pelosi

in Comment on Carl Hulse NYT On the Hill, Nancy Pelosi, Mystery Delegate 04.02.08

As a longtime follower of Speaker Pelosi, I am dismayed that she does not speak out for all the older women disenfranchised by the deplorable anti-democratic Caucus States. Older women are the backbone of the Democratic Party and it may be novel & thrilling to have a lot of new voters -- but you applaud them at your peril if you're willing -- in ignorance or in cowardice -- to allow your most faithful supporters to be silenced.

15% of Hillary's voters were cheated of their share of the pledged delegates because the antiquated caucus system prevents them from having an Absentee Ballot no matter how infirm they are. There is an epidemic in America of older women who have a deep dread of falling. They do not go out. They can't use a ride. They need an Absentee Ballot. (In Texas, Hillary was +4 in the primary & -12 in the caucus the same day. An Absentee Ballot, an Absentee Ballot, my democracy for an Absentee Ballot!)

I'm ashamed of Speaker Pelosi for not being a champion of these older Democrats. Only the will of (healthy) people counts in the Halls of Power, it seems. Don’t we expect superdelegates to think, to look, to account for? Do we really want superlemmings? Or superduperlemmings?

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