MARYLAND: Silencing the vote

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Silencing the vote

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.election09dec09,0,3131082.story?coll=bal-oped-headlines

Originally published December 9, 2004

PEOPLE FROM all over Ukraine have gone to Kiev to protest dishonest
vote counting in their presidential election. Exit polls, so
trustworthy that they are used worldwide to uncover election fraud,
showed the opposition candidate had won, and the people didn't believe
the news when it reported the government's surprise victory.

To those of us who doubt President Bush won the election in the United
States, the key differences between here and Ukraine are the methods
of fraud and the passivity of the news media.

Here the party in power used unverifiable computerized voting to boost
its totals and intimidation and misinformation to suppress the vote
totals of its opponents, but the news media haven't investigated it.

The recounts by the Libertarian and Green parties in Ohio and by the
Ralph Nader campaign in New Hampshire are not being covered by the
commercial news media, despite being under way for more than two
weeks. And that's not even the most consequential story the national
press has not yet seen fit to print.

(SNIP)

David Lytel, founder of ReDefeatBush.com, served in the White House
Office of Science and Technology Policy during the first Clinton
administration.

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