HW30: What Kind of Democracy do we want?

Today at the Citizenship Symposium, I attended the session called, “What kind of Democracy do we want?” There were 3 speakers by the names of Emile Netzhammer (KSC Provost), Mayor Michael Blastos, and Nancy Tobi. Nancy Tobi showed us a slide show that she called, “Citizens Gone Wild: Taking Control of Our Democracy.” The first slide she told us about Moses, and how he was the first leader of the democratic movement. She referred to him as “a stuttering, humble, poor shepherd refugee,” who “led his people from slavery to freedom, invoking pure democratic law.” Nancy Tobi then began to ask “What kind of Democracy do we have?” She went over the Declaration of Independence, and the meaning of what democracy is on Wikipedia; a republic state or country that is not led by a monarchy. Tobi then talked about safeguard, and election crime. This affects everything. There are two methods that are used to count votes. There is a hand count (community counters) and then there is the Diebold Count (black box count). Nationally, 80% of the ballots counted by corporate owned and programmed computers using secret vote counting. In New Hampshire, 81% of the ballots are counted by corporate owned and programmed computers using secret vote counting. One quote that she used was by Joseph Stalin, “It’s not who votes that counts, It’s who counts the votes.” If there’s one thing I learned it would be about the election crime, I never knew that the ballots were counted by corporate owned and programmed computers.