California Prop 37 election fraud?

For our readers' interest from  From Food Democracy Now Please feel free to "share" on Facebook or Twitter and visit the website to sign a letter.

Right now the votes for Prop 37 to label genetically engineered foods are still being counted. On Tuesday morning, Dec 4th, Prop 37 hit 6,004,628 votes on the California Secretary of State’s website, but this tally was quickly reversed within an hour of being publicized by Food Democracy Now!

Since November 6th, the vote count in California has been updated daily until December 4th, when the vote count hit 6 million for the first time. When contacted, the Secretary of State's office stated there would be no further updates to the vote totals until Dec 14th when state law requires the election results to be certified. County elected officials only have until COB Dec 7th to submit final results so we need your help now!

At the same time, Food Democracy Now! has learned that a team of independent statisticians have detected “statistical anomalies” in the largest precincts of 9 counties, including Orange, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Alameda and San Diego counties.

We find this news troubling and think it’s important that the Secretary of State’s office know that we are watching these developments closely and expect honest and fair election results.

Join us in standing up for open and transparent elections, it’s important that all votes be counted and any possible malfeasance is properly investigated by California election officials. Count all the ballots, be open and transparent, because we have the Right to Know!

Click here to download proof that Prop 37 has earned 6 million votes, share on Facebook and with your friends to demand openness and transparency in elections.


For those who want the background, here are the links:
1. "Proposition 37: Genetically Engineered Foods Labeling", California Secretary of State, December 3, 2012, 4:58 p.m.

http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/725?t=16&akid=685.163659.SGEb-s

2. “Election fraud in California Prop 37? vote count hits 6 million, then CA Secretary of States site loses 18,000 votes? pic.twitter.com/hlk4VM7i” @food_democracy,  December 4, 2012
http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/727?t=19&akid=685.163659.SGEb-s

3. “Documented Deceptions of No on 37 Campaign”, California Right to Know Campaign, November 2, 2012

http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/728?t=21&akid=685.163659.SGEb-s

4. "Rigged Elections", Op-Ed News, Michael Collins, October 22, 2012
http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/731?t=23&akid=685.163659.SGEb-s

5. “How to Rig an Election”, Victoria Collier, Harper’s Magazine, November 5, 2012

http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/729?t=25&akid=685.163659.SGEb-s

6. “None Dare Call it Stolen”, Mark Crispin Miller, Harper’s Magazine, August 2005

http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/730?t=27&akid=685.163659.SGEb-s

Prop 37 recount: $55 million spent by corporations to defeat it

This blog urged voters to support prop 37 which aimed at labeling food. As we pointed out, millions was spent calling for a no vote  by food corporations like Monsanto, General Mills and Con-Agra to name a few. This should have convinced most thinking voters to vote yes but the scare tactics convinced many people to oppose it.  They warned of massive increases in costs and how it will destroy the "little guy" and that the proposition was flawed etc.  It may not have been perfect by any means, but these tactics are also used to convince workers not to fight for higher wages becasue they will simply increase prices and past the cost on to us. They may and they may not. What they can do depends on how organized we are, how strong and committed we are. They will get way with what they can if we let them.

We have been asked to make readers aware of the following and share it for your interest.

Please request via phone or online that all votes are counted for PROP 37 GMO labelling by:

1)  please sign the petition to Debra Bowen, California Secretary of State which says:

"We petition Debra Bowen, Secretary of State of California, to require ALL votes cast in the November 6 election be counted immediately. We specifically demand that ALL ballots in the following counties be counted and recorded: Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego, and Santa Clara. We demand that the results of this complete ballot counting be made public immediately."

The petition can be found here:  http://signon.org/sign/prop-37-count-all-the?source=s.icn.em.cp&r_by=6040778

2)  Whether you live in California or not...please call this number and demand a recount.  Main Number: (916) 657-2166!... all you need to do is call the Secretary of State and ask for the absentee ballots to be counted in regards to prop 37. There is something like 2 million votes that are uncounted.

Many of the trendy, so-called organic businesses opposed prop 37 (see image) but they include.

  LaraBar
  Ben & Jerry's
  Kashi
  Cascadia Farms
  Back to Nature
  Muir Glen
  Odwalla
  Goya
  Horizon Milk

They sell their expensive trendy wares to those who can afford to shop at Whole Foods and other trendy places but when it comes to business, profits and the supremacy of capital comes first. They spent a total of $55 million it seems. The best democracy money can buy.

This image can be found here:
http://www.math.utexas.edu/users/drana/Pub/Prop37Traitors.jpg

Also check out this:
Did Prop 37 really lose?

Money and democracy: Yes on Calif Prop 37

I just saw an ad on TV telling me to vote "no" on proposition 37.  I didn't know anything about it.  But they had a doctor in a white coat tell me how bad it would be for me, then some other official looking academic warn me.  Then they had a "small farmer" tell me how expensive it would be and how they would go out of business and how they care so much about me and all the money it would cost me.

I was quite moved by the love and concern these people have for the ordinary man and woman and our children so at the end of the ad I looked at who was paying for this effort to persuade me to vote no against a measure that calls for the labeling of food products.  I was convinced quite quickly which way I should vote.  Among the sponsors are Hershey, Cargill, Con Agra*, Kellogg, General Mills and more.  Pretty obvious then.  I should vote yes on proposition 37.

Proposition 37  “Requires labeling of food sold to consumers made from plants or animals with genetic material changed in specified ways. Prohibits marketing such food, or other processed food, as ‘natural.’ Provides exemptions.”Some $34,350,000 has been spent by these corporations opposing the measure.  This is supposed to be democracy in action.  I haven't read all the details about this particular proposition but it is obviously better for us that it passes.  What a massive waste of the wealth our labor creates spending $34 million trying to convince us through lies and deception to vote against our interests (of course, voting for Democrats or Republicans is against our interests also), and this is only one small example.

The approach, that if we pass 37 it'll cost us lots of money for numerous reasons, regulation and that companies will have to charge more to raise money to comply and for lawsuits etc., reminds me of the argument against fighting for higher wages or any social advances. It's obvious the bosses dreamed up that idea. If we do that the bosses will be forced to raise prices they say. This is a no brainer though as bosses, if they can, will raise prices any time the market can bear it. Supply and demand determines whether or not the boss can raises prices, not personal whim.  If the market can't absorb it, then the they eat it in profits.  In other words, their income will be reduced instead of ours.

If 37 passes, the corporations may well try with the help of their political parties and cooperation from the trade Union officialdom, to make us pay for some or part of any cost increases they incur. So simply passing legislation doesn't guarantee much in and of itself.  The struggle against the bosses goes on perpetually and our tactics in that class war also have to change according to the balance of forces and the nature of the war. Taking these giant producers under public ownership and control is one necessary step in improving the way we produce food.

But the hypocritical concern for costs to the taxpayer at some basic regulation is a joke.  We don't hear too much form them about the costs of cleaning up the environment after their factories have poisoned our communities or the trillion dollar costs of the wars abroad.

If you haven't seen it, the movie Food Inc is worth watching for a glimpse in to the dictatorship a corporation has over our economic life as well over agricultural production.

* Not so long ago Cargill was caught damping down, spraying water on grain in order for it to weigh heavier and therefore bring higher prices.