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VOID Election Result

By a unanimous vote of 1 member, the current board of directors were reelected to serve another 2 year term as VOID's board.

I would have thought more VOID members would have voted. Without doing polling research, it is not possible to say why other members were not nominated, and why not even a majority of the nominees voted. Perhaps the most obvious explanations are: 1) no one wants to volunteer the hours and time the current Board of Directors has put in these last 2 years, and 2) appearing unchallenged, the outcome seemed to be a slam dunk and therefore did not require the time to vote.

What I can concretely say is this. The reelected Board members will work as hard and smart as they can to further the goals of Vote Out Incumbents Democracy. More, one cannot ask of volunteers.

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VOID Director Elections

December 17, 2008

Emails were sent to all VOID members yesterday and a correction today, regarding the election of VOID's directors for the next 2 years.

If you did not receive one and are a member, it is due to our not having an email address on record for you. If you are a member and wish to vote, please send an email with your name and request for voting instructions to president [at] voidnow.org

Voting will take place from Friiday morning at 12:01 AM through midnight Sunday of this weekend.

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Join the Revolution!

Vote Out Incumbents Democracy is growing, and our state chapters are a new part of VOID's growth. We cannot afford the luxury of incompetent, irresponsible, and unrepresentative Congress persons in D.C. Our goal is to throw as many of these incumbents as possible in 2008 and 2010, teaching their replacements the following: 1) The voters employ them and we expect the most for our tax dollar. 2) They will be fired for creating national problems and dividing America, instead of solving national problems and uniting America.

Make your contribution to the Voter Revolution. Become a member by clicking here. Or, Volunteer: Email us here.. And of course, vote for a challenger!

The Rationale for VOID

Power in Small Numbers

Third parties and independent candidates for federal office, as well as half of the eligible voters in this country, utterly fail to recognize the power they hold in the palms of their hands. The power of just a small number of them to radically alter American politics as well as substantially, and significantly, reform American government is right there in front of them. Yet, so far, they have refused to see it and seize it for their own. Some who do see it, recoil from it. Is power in politics such a frightening thing? Perhaps, but not for long.

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President's Corner

Letter to a challenger!

I received an email from a challenger in Tennessee seeking correspondence with Vote Out Incumbents for Democracy. Below is the reply of VOID's president.

Dear Sir,

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VOID Quotes

Politicians pay to stay in office. The People pay if they do.

The freshman politician wants to serve the people, but is weak on experience. The veteran politician has experience, but serves reelection, instead.

There are no dumb voters. Only people who don't vote.

Voting OUT incompetent, inefficient, and irresponsible politicians is how Revolution is prevented.

Only politicians would use other people's money to buy bridges to nowhere.

Politicians are living proof of The Peter Principle.

Peter Principle (n.) - The theory that folks will advance in their careers beyond their level of competence, by one promotion too many. And having done so, remain there, screwing everything up for everyone else.

DRR

Honoring "Grandpa" Smith

In honor and memory of Mr. Steve "Grandpa" Smith. Mr. Smith was among a handful of our first members and volunteers, and his continuous encouragement, ideas, and support shall be dearly missed.

Disclaimer!

The views expressed below in this column belong only to their authors, and may not reflect the views of the VOID organization.

Anti-Incumbent News

November 21, 2008

Sen. Ted Stevens Spells Hope!

When the electorate, predominantly Republican, will elect a Democrat, rather than their convicted felon incumbent Sen. Ted Stevens, there is hope and reason to work within the Vote Out Incumbents Democracy movement and organization. Congratulations Alaska, on narrowly doing the right thing. We empathize with the only other choice being a Democrat.

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November 6, 2008

Anti-Incumbent Voters, Alive, Well, and Growing.

From Michigan's Supreme Court race to the many incumbent losses in the House of Representatives, to the incumbent losses in the Senate (Oregon's Smith, N. Carolina's Dole, New Hampshire's Sununu), the anti-incumbent vote made its presence very visible in this election. It was decidedly an anti-incumbent vote against the GOP. However, both major parties can no longer ignore the power of the independent voters (6% of whom decided the Democratic direction of this race), nor the power of voters exercising their right and obligation to vote out incumbents when government disappoints the voters.

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Volunteer Editorials

October 31, 2008

Election: Crisis of Confidence and Judgement

As always, elections are about variables so myriad as to make polling effective only in trend for some elections, and entirely unreliable in others. It appears to me this 2008 election however, is about a crisis in confidence toward authority and the presidential winner will be the person having shown the most credible judgement.

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August 27, 2008

Sen. Menendez (D-NJ): Opposes American Workers

Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) simply doesn't care about American workers. This is made obvious by his attempt to kill the E-Verify program requiring employers to verify citizenship of potential employees through a computerized system before hiring them.

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Ethics and Corruption

March 9, 2008

CREW has some good articles.

CREW, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, writes:

House has opened wide loopholes in ethics rules.

As the U.S. House of Representatives continues its debate on how to proceed on ethics reform, an article in today's edition of The Hill is instructive. Even though, the Senate is far from doing all the work on policing its members that needs to be done, that body is viewed as more aggressive on ethics issues. Two former House members (Cunningham and Ney) are incarcerated. Two more members (Jefferson and Renzi) are currently under indictment.

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September 27, 2007

Democrat's DREAM Act Defeated!

Democrat's attempt to hide their 'Amnesty and Leave the Borders Open' bill, by burying it in the Defense Appropriations Bill, has failed. Some 490,000 NumbersUSA supporters, and many thousands of other Americans, hit their Senators again with raucous dissent via phone, fax, and email at this sneaky and underhanded attempt to revive the Amnesty bill which, failed last summer as a stand alone bill.

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