Dealing with Corrupt Elections

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From the recent issue of "Democratic Left" (page 5):

Given the fiasco in Florida in 2000, the closeness
and intensity of the 2004 presidential election, and the
myriad blatant conflicts of interest during it, the mainstream
media blackout on what
has to be the central story of the
2004 Presidential Election – the
massive and statistically impossible
discrepancy between exit
poll and reported election results
– is a betrayal of the media’s role
in a democracy.

SNIP

I witnessed firsthand the
stealing of the election and widespread
voter suppression against
African American voters on
Election Day as an attorney for
Election Protections at two innercity
Columbus wards, which
included eight polling places.
As part of the Bush campaign’s
strategy, caging tactics were used
against the poor and minorities
in Ohio’s urban centers. In
Columbus, the executive director
of the Franklin County Board
of Elections, former County
Republican Party Chair Matt Damschroder, held back
76 voting machines, all from Democratic-rich Columbus,
including 42 in the African American wards that voted
more than 80 percent for John Kerry. There was a long
list of voter irregularities and computer malfunctions in
Kerry strongholds throughout Ohio on Election Day. U.S.
Representative John Conyers (D-MI) later concluded that
hundreds of thousands of voters were disenfranchised in
the Buckeye state, calling the election results into question.

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