The reports were especially disturbing in Ohio, the critical battleground state that clinched Bush's victory in the electoral college. Officials there purged tens of thousands of eligible voters from the rolls, neglected to process registration cards generated by Democratic voter drives, shortchanged Democratic precincts when they allocated voting machines and illegally derailed a recount that could have given Kerry the presidency. A precinct in an evangelical church in Miami County recorded an impossibly high turnout of ninety-eight percent, while a polling place in inner-city Cleveland recorded an equally impossible turnout of only seven percent. In Warren County, GOP election officials even invented a nonexistent terrorist threat to bar the media from monitoring the official vote count.
We need to get ahead of this issue before the 2006 elections. We know that Bush should never have been the President in 2000. And we are also pretty sure that he should not have been elected in 2004. if we cannot find a way to bring fairness back to our electoral process then what will the Republicans spring on us next? Condoleeza Rice? Jeb Bush? This cannot be allowed to happen!
We must regain control of our country! If this keeps up America may well find itself fighting another civil war in the near future. What holds us together is the sense of fairness in our process. If we lose that, we have lost everything.
Great article. I hope many read it.
ReplyDeleteKennedy has guts.
Thank you, o frozen one!