The Last Battle
by Sheila Samples
(Sunday 07 November 2004)
So that’s it, then. Like John Kerry says, it’s time to get over it. Move on. Get on with our lives and our jobs—let the healing begin.
Sounds good, John. But I don’t intend to budge until all the votes are counted, because when I started this journey I committed for the long haul. Jumping ship to avoid putting the country through the “agony” of investigating and challenging another sordid election coup d’etat would never occur to me—especially if I had 17,000 lawyers fired up and ready to do battle. If, as you said, this was the single most important election in our lifetime—our one last shot at salvaging democracy—it looks like you could have, as a minimum, hung around until the results were in.
Maybe you’d have to stand in line for two hours in a frigid, blowing rain like I did, John, to understand the determination to do whatever it takes to cast a vote in Jim Inhofe Country where Democratic votes don’t count. Or, maybe you should mingle among the millions of others throughout the nation—the youth, women, Hispanics, Blacks, et al, that you alone inspired to endure grueling hours in long lines because you awakened them to the truth that four more years of George Bush would make their lives, their jobs and healing impossible?
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Since you’ve probably got some extra time on your hands until the Inauguration, you might be interested in reading an in-depth background piece on the trials and tribs of Bev Harris and Andy Stephenson (BlackBoxVoting.org) over the past four years as they engaged in bloody battles with Ohio’s Diebold Election Systems’ CEO Walden O’Dell in a futile effort to interest the media and the public in the prospect of another election coup—or non-violent overthrow of the government.
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Others, such as EarlG and SoCalDem over at Democratic Underground.com, are relentlessly fighting that last battle even though you have left the building, John. These guys point out the obvious—“in EVERY STATE that has paper audit trails on their (sic) EVoting, the exit poll results match the actual results reported within the margin of error.” They say also that “EVERY STATE that has EVoting, but no paper trails has an unexplained advantage for Bush of around +5 percent when exit polls are compared to actual results.”
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http://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/11077/
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