“The right to vote… is the primary right
by which other rights are protected” – Thomas Paine
The Declaration of Independence asserts our rights to determine and change our form of government – without voting integrity we lose that most fundamental of rights.
Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, -The Declaration of Independence
But the fundamental freedom of American self-government, the very key of liberty, is being challenged like never before. Â Â The sole method of control of the government that Americans have is elections. Â And in the last several years, the counting of America’s votes has been rendered corruptly secret, invisible and outside the power of any citizen to observe, via the processes and contracts of computerized voting- Paul Lehto, <ref>
The U.S. Constitution itself was created and approved based on the rights in the Declaration of Independence, that gave ‘We the people’ the power to choose.
We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. – U.S. Constitution
The Constitution of the State Of Connecticut: Like the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, the Connecticut Constitution is based on the power of the people to alter their government.
Article I, Sec 2. All political power is inherent in the people, and all free governments are founded on their authority, and instituted for their benefit; and they have at all times an undeniable and indefensible right to alter their form of government in such manner as they may think expedient. – Constitution of the State of Connecticut
Without voting integrity all of our Constitutional rights are in danger.
