Absence makes the voting stronger

Dear Fellow Black Americans

Let's boycott the elections. That 's a strong statement I know but I have a good reason. I saw a documentary about the Diebold Machines on HBO called Hacking Democracy that was really an eye opener for me and showed in graphic detail how easy it is to change the vote, hack the vote and never have to answer to anybody.

Let's face it the Republicans and conservative Whites don't want us to vote; and since we will not stop breeding and our numbers won't go down they have to find ways to suppress our votes. After all to the conservaties and racists we don't know the intracacies of the political process, or the delecate balance of the economic forces facing this country. We just usually vote for the most liberal person on the ballot because we don't trust Republicans and Conservatives.

They have Karl Rove and lots of resources all we have is faith in the American system and the expectation that we will be treated like real Americans and welcomed into the democratic process.

We may have many challenges, but at least we are smart enough not to have anything to do with that Bush idiot and we didn't need a botched war in Iraq to open our eyes to that jackass.

And that is problematic to the powers that be.

So what is the alternative? Not voting at all.

No we have fought too long and too hard to not vote at all-- I have a better idea.

Absentee ballots.

Not showing up to the polls would look really bad to the rest of the world. I am sure journalist from around the world cover our elections and it would be very strange not to see any Black people at the polls especially in our big cities. If anyone asks us why we aren't voting, we will just tell him that we don't care about a bunch of politicians and we have to go see the latest episode of The Flavor of Love.

This is a great plan because first of all we would do this as a deliberate concerted group effort. That would be very disconcerting to racist Whites who think all we do is complain about injustice, smoke weed and watch BET and would be nervous at the thought of us organizing or being sneaky.

Second of all it would register as a protest to the way we were treated in Florida in 2000 and in Ohio in 2004 specifically; and how we are maltreated in general when it comes to voting.

And third it would just look very bad.

So here is the plan:

We all sign up for absentee ballot status in our states, this won't work unless we all do it-- I am already an absentee voter. People like Condoleeza, Clarence and Colin can be excluded but the rest of us have to stick together.

If the Election people ask us why tell them we are going to be out of town, which will be true because...

We then go to the most rural part of our state where all the White Farmers and Survivalists live and mail in our absentee ballots from those areas.

That way they will think they are getting White, Conservative, Republican votes only to be fooled when they actually start counting them.

They may still find a way to get rid of our votes when they figure out our diabolical plan but it will be difficult to separate our votes from the "good" ones inconspicuously.

Just think about it..... that's all I ask.

Its probably too late for this particular election next week, so go down to the polls and do the best you can; take your ID, your voter registration card and hope your name isn't a match to some felon's name. Also don't pay any attention to any fliers telling you the election will be on Wednesday.

But for the next election, the Presidential one in 2008, apply for absentee ballot status. And hurry up before they find out about this.

Yours Truly

A Black woman who refuses to vote Diebold.