Keep it if you can

[Lou Puls <lpuls@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In the waning few days of a critical Congress (brought to us by the 
highest corporate bidders), both HAVA reform versions are on the auction 
block, contenders for the final messy filling of the sausage.  Will the 
smelly result include the vital promise of a verifiable, recountable 
PAPER ballot OF RECORD, which has so painfully made its way into 
committee consideration?  Will enough of the small minority of concerned 
citizens of a consumption-mad country be aware as one more Ben-Franklin 
choice presents itself to try to keep the Republic?  Stay tuned.

Lou

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As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.  I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of war.
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- Abraham Lincoln in an 1864 letter to William Elkins

Corporations will ultimately succeed in directing government itself.  Under the American form of society, there is no authority capable of effective resistance.
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- Henry Adams, 1870