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10-Minute Lesson
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The
10-minute lesson,
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The
goal -- very achievable -- is to get hundreds of thousands of
people to read it and act on it!
This easy to grasp ten-minute lesson must be shared and applied by hundreds of thousands of people all across America immediately. Print copies and pass them out to all who do not have access to the internet. For more useful information visit: www.networkamerica.org.
Election laws and political party rules vary with both place and time, however, the overall system is similar.
Part I: The System By Which We Choose Leaders.
While some are appointed and others simply volunteer, many political leaders in our nation are voted into office. These leaders may establish policy or create law; still others, may deploy armed forces or policing agencies. Therefore, it is essential that we have both qualified candidates and verifiably accurate vote tabulation and reporting. Without both, our constitutional republican system of representative government cannot survive.
Notwithstanding territories and protectorates, the United States of America is comprised of 50 individual states. These 50 states are each subdivided into counties, which combined number over 3,000. Each of these over 3,000 counties is further subdivided into precincts (sometimes known as wards, townships, parishes, etc.).
The voting precinct is the smallest administrative/political subdivision in our federal system. In densely populated urban areas, a precinct may contain but a few city blocks. In rural areas, a precinct may contain many square miles. Population number determines the size of a voting precinct. There are usually between 200 and 500 voters in an average precinct. There are approximately 300,000 precincts in the United States of America. All the registered voters in a precinct vote at the same polling location.
Here's the "secret," unknown by the public. Usually between March and May in even numbered years, precinct leaders, variously known as committeeman or committeewoman, precinct captain or chairman, etc., are elected in their voting precincts by each official party recognized in your state. Unfortunately, in most states, only the two major Democratic and Republican Parties are recognized. Both major parties have crafted the election laws in each state to ensure the continuation of their well-established two-party system making it almost impossible for third parties to gain ballot access or remain viable.
Why are these elected precinct leaders representing each political party in your neighborhood important? The elected precinct leaders for each political party—a few weeks after their election in the primary election (as held in May, 2006, in Ohio) —convene the county organizational meeting. At each party’s organizational meeting, the precinct leaders nominate and elect their party county committee leaders.
Why are the party leaders in your county important? Party county committee leaders have a decisive influence over how votes are counted. Party county committee leaders also have a decisive influence over which candidates receive the party's endorsement; candidates (often groomed and nominated by party leadership) who receive party endorsement often win primary elections, ultimately capturing the desired office.
Following the county organizational meetings, county party leaders of each party convene to nominate and elect their state party committee leaders, who in turn convene to nominate and elect their party national committee leaders. At each level, it is party leadership that advances, debates and establishes the rules and platform by which the party will advance its agenda, its program for action.
The essay archived at the referenced webpage above entitled, The Most Powerful Office in the Land, provides additional evidence to confirm our belief that the Precinct Executive may be “the most powerful” office in the land, a foundational building block, if not the cornerstone, upon which our system of limited constitutional republican government shall either stand, or fall.
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For a primer on how the ruling elite have virtually made it criminal for citizens to exercise checks and balances over local elections, see: The Greatest Cover-up of All: VoteFraud in America. Electronic voting systems make possible secretly predetermined voting (election rigging) in too many counties, a notable exception being about 70% of the counties in New Hampshire.
Part II: How to Run for Precinct Executive
The campaign for the office of party county committee co-chair, voting precinct executive, or as otherwise known, is easily run, and often, easily won.
For example, in Hamilton County, Ohio, only a petition bearing the valid signatures of five registered voters (registered as members of the candidate’s political party, and whom live in the candidate’s precinct) are needed to qualify and be entered upon the ballot for election. In Ohio, it is also valid to accept voters who are not registered as members of either major party to sign the candidate’s petition.
On primary election day (held as early as March, or as late as June in even numbered years, i.e. 2004, 2006, 2008) precinct elections are held. Precinct election arrives without fanfare, and usually, occupies the bottom lines upon the ballot.
Furthermore, at any time, as many as one third of precinct positions in a county may be vacant. In these precincts, candidates qualifying for a ballot position, win automatically, provided they go to the polling location and cast a vote for themselves.
Where more than one candidate seeks the same precinct office, hence, when a contested race occurs, the final vote tally often looks like a football score, or even a baseball score: 20 to 9, or 9 to 5, or 48 to 37, 3 to 1, or the like. Though it may be comparatively easy to win a party’s county committee office, parties are mindful to maintain control of these important, though obscure positions.
Once elected, little time and effort are required for the precinct executive to impact the precinct system. In even years (2004, 2006, 2008, etc.), party members who decide to get involved, run for precinct executive in their voting precinct, and attend their party's county organizational meetings may invest as little as forty hours.
The precinct system described exists, yet is rarely mentioned by conventional news sources or elsewhere. Until a friend of this author explained the system to me in 1986, I had never noticed the precinct election in my own precinct, though I was quite politically active.
Part
III: The All-Important Party County Organizational Meeting
As stated above, the Democratic and Republican party organizational meeting in your county is a virtual secret. Most people reading this have never been to their party’s county organizational meeting, have never heard where one was held, nor have they noticed anything about these important meetings in the electronic or print media.
It is essential that hundreds of thousands of voters all across America attend their upcoming party county organizational meetings, beginning in March thru June 2008. Whether elected to serve on the party county committee or not, attend the county organizational meeting of one, both, or all parties in your county.
County party leaders in both the Democratic and Republican parties need to see hundreds of determined local people attend, making known that an informed people now comprehend the precinct system and are prepared to use it to effect change.
The decision to assume a low-key posture, thereby keeping the current party leadership guessing, or conversely, to lead the way for others in your county by boldly making known what you believe and why you believe it, is a personal choice.
Ultimately, a committee of responsible, outspoken leaders in each county will emerge. Whether or not you are elected precinct executive, whether or not you even run for precinct executive, go to one or more of the party organizational meetings in your county.
The
first step is to get onto the field of battle—the precinct
system.
Part IV: Call Your County Board of Elections.
Look at your voter registration card. On it will be the name of your voting precinct and the address of your polling location. Contact your County Clerk (local election authority) and obtain a map of your voting district. Request a copy of all pertinent information and documents needed to obtain ballot access for the office of party county committeeman, precinct executive, etc. Fill out the paperwork, collect the needed signatures, and begin canvassing your precinct for supporters. Be sure to turn in all documents before the deadline. Then, encourage friends and acquaintances to take similar action in their precincts.
Taking back America, one precinct, one county, one state at a time!
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