"BUTTERFLY" BALLOTS AND A POLITICAL ANIMAL FARM
Is this election the beginning of an Orwellian One Party Animal Farm
for America? Or have Butterfly ballot "errors" actually been the
blessing in disguise to give us just enough wiggle-free, flutter-free
room, as a nation, and a planet, to escape an impossible situation
and call for a whole new election under fair election laws where
money does not equal speech, where money does not control our political
process and where men and women serve together in equal balance?
Write-In Presidential/Vice-Presidential candidates Hjalmer Wayne
Erickson and Dr. Rachelle OneFamily Miller, Alexandra Lorraine and
and Daniel Jospeh Pearlman, Carlet Ward, Carmen Chimento, Jeff
Peters, Anthony Michael Cohen, Paula Elizabeth Bennett, Temperance
Lance-Council and others who ran on platforms of gender balance and
inclusive, fair representation in real democracy thinks its a good
moment to ask ourselves that question. "Now's the time to reread the
Novel of government gone awry by George Orwell, as a smaller and
smaller elite group attempt to run our country without a clear
popular mandate, on a narrow decision of contested votes in a deeply
divisive election where 50% of the citizenry, especially women, did
not vote because neither major party had included a woman on their
tickets," say gender balance write-in candidates.
The gender balance candidates have an archetypcal, symbolic
interpretation of what happened with the controversial "Butterfly"
ballots that are now "preventing" the most monied Elephants and bull
Democratic Leadership Council Donkeys from claiming a win or loss for
the election: Since genetic engineering of corn has been shown to be
decimating the world butterly population, a danger to all plant and
animal life in the web of life, the gender balance candidates feel it
is not a coincidence that this election was thrown into a stop-action
pause by a "butterfly ballot" in a state where the Everglades is a
breeding ground for natural life and butterflies. Butterflies are
often associated with the subtle, tender, but essential, feminine
aspects of nature. In literature and art, butterflies are most often
associated with women. Women were left off both the now competing
tickets.
"This is the butterflies' gentle message of natural defense against
male CEO money controlling the parties. The influence of male-
corporatism can be seen in the major parties' refusing women
executive candidacy, ignoring the butterflies and genetic engineering
issues which are so much discussed in Europe but being avoided here,
and for corrupting, tokenizing and minoritizing the majority feminine
face of humanity and Mother Nature, as well as other minorities also
excluded from the tickets, in favor or large white male corporate
interests and money. Try as people will to make this election work
and choose between the two all male tickets forced-fed them by
Buckley v Villejo and corporate money, the harder they try, the more
tribulations they may incur. We hope they see the light before they
spread the unholy error of this male and money-dominated election
from America to the entire world", say the gender balance candidates.
According to these independents, Democrats and Republicans in
Congress seem more and more to merge into one another; yet large
numbers of Americans seem unwilling to cast votes for either major
party. Most agree with Granny D and many third parties that our
election and campaign finance laws themselves are at cause. "The
ballot confusion in Florida is like the fever that natures gives us
to let us know we have a deeper infection. That infection is our
election and campaign finance laws, thrust upon us by a clearly
erring and irresponsible Supreme Court decision. Such laws turn the
few advantaged women who can rise in such an unfair
male-money-dominated system into the same biased, party-first/
nation-last political hacks as bull male politicians are, and into
amoral functionares and enablers, like trapped token Florida
Secretary of State Katherine Harris. It is impossible for any man or
woman to dispense just decisions when the entire system is based on
tiers and tiers of unjust law and bull male domination."
According to the gender balance advocate tickets, which included a
theologian, Carmen Chimento who was the third ranked candidate in the
closest Senate race in history in New Hampshire in 1974, "God, which
includes Mother Nature, is trying to give a signal here, in defense
of butterflies and billions of unrepresented world women whose fate
is being affected by the male CE0, corporation dominated US political
apparatus. Now, after billions of dollars of Bull male's media ads
have resulted in emptyhandedness at crosspurpose with itself, Mother
Nature has given us 'a little butterfly controversy' to get the
world's attention. A fair vote count derived from an unfair election
is even more elusive than butterflies. We hope and pray humanity is
listening for the deeper message", say Chimento, Erickson, Miller,
Anthony Michael Cohen, Bennett, Peters and the many other write-ins
concerned about the lack of gender balance on the major parties'
tickets.
They add: "No matter how many times you recount the vote, or use
outdated law to remove it from the people by placing it in the
hermetically sealed vault of the Electoral College or the
still grossly unproportionally white male, unrepresentative House, you
can't fool Mother Nature, which is ultimately a face of God."
According to the gender balance tickets and Chimento: "We have only
one viable, spiritual path, acceptable to nature": Repeal the notion
that money equals speech, conduct fair, inclusive televised debates
and a fair election that includes women on any and all tickets as
their numbers in humanity dictates, allow people to have write-in
votes not just in the general election but in the primaries where
they are equally if not even more important, recognize that the party
system no longer serves or attracts the people and replace it with
metaparty list system which is used in Scandinavia and other modern
democracies, and allow national referenda. In other words, move
elections into the 21st century and stop trying to run them under law
that fit the white male only environment of 1789 but is a complete
anachronism today and unacceptable to the everpresent laws of nature.
"Few Americans or people outside of the United States will express
confidence in either the process or the result of November 7", say the
write-in consciousness raisers. "Time, and the Grace of God, will
guide us to discover Who truly and naturally presides over America,
over our planet, and all brothers and sisters of a new Millennium.
When our election laws are as fair and beautiful as the wings of real
butterflies, and when women are not excluded by money from tickets,
God will allow us to have a decision of an election of truly
Millennial spirit.
"The rule of law must be based on truly moral law, which invalidates
Buckley v. Villejo and the anachronism of the Electoral College
established by all white propertied men. These old, undemocratic
"rules of law", clung to by male-dominated legislatures and Congress
have effectively kept money in and pushed many qualified women and
men of fairness out of executive and legislative leadership. The
League of Women Voters has advocated reform for decades. Those who
accept less and validate processes which can no longer be valid in a
new Millennium, will likely simply have more troubles ahead, like
those of the misled, befuddled sheep and powerful but
self-destructive pigs of Animal Farm.
We don't believe those butterflies are there to take anyone's rights
away. Butterflies are free. They are there to remind us to ask,
"After billions of dollars spent on this election in our 225th
year of all white male monied tickets, are we?"
cc. women's and proportional voting reform organizations worldwide
http://www.CarmenChimento.com
http://www.geocities.com/weallwin_2000/weallwin.html
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