The real problem

Here's another reason I've decided to cancel my pledge to the Democratic Party. The party leadership is not speaking out on the subject of election reform. Here's an excerpt from an article by Bernard Weiner called "Reforming the Democrats — or a third party?":

[O]ur current voting system is a corrupted mess. It outsources ballot-counting to private corporations with secret software easily open to manipulation from the companies that own the e-voting machines and vote-counting computers, or to hacking from without. Those corporations are Republican-supporters at present, and key recent elections probably were fiddled with, according to scholars and other experts who have examined the shoddy system. If we can't overhaul the current manner of voting and ballot-counting, taking corruption and partisanship out of it, it won't matter how clean and transparent and dynamic our refurbished party is. We'll still continue to "lose," even when we win.

What good is it going to do to fund campaigns if the Republicans are going to keep stealing elections and we're too cowed to call them on it?