Democrats weekly radio address focused on voting issues

[Tom Rinaldo]

Every week the President gives a radio address to the Nation and the Democrats do the same. This week Donna Brazile was the Democratic spokesperson and her chosen topic was voter irregularities, but her talk is largely being ignored by the media, with a few paragraphs at most covered. I can not find any published transcript of her talk. The most complete coverage in by CNN's online Inside Politics.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/12/11/dems.radio/index.html

Here are some excerpts from the coverage:

Since the November 2004 elections, she said, the DNC and the Voting Rights Institute have supported a number of efforts, including monitoring the recount in the state of Ohio and helping finance a statewide recount in the race for governor of Washington state. In addition, the committee announced this week it would investigate "various election administration issues" that arose in Ohio during the election...

"We owe it to the students of Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, who waited up to 10 hours to vote," she said. "We owe it to thousands of Ohio voters who wonder whether their votes were counted with the use of new electronic voting machines, and we owe it to countless other Americans.

"There is no place in our democracy for faulty voting equipment, long lines at the polls, untrained poll workers and any forms of chads," Brazile said. She called on members of Congress next year to work together and fully finance the Help America Vote Act, created to upgrade voting systems and ensure every voter has equal access to the ballot box.

"As a nation, we should not rest until our elections are free from the problems of elections past and until all Americans can cast their ballots on Election Day fully confident that their votes have been counted," she said.

The DNC is still holding to the line that their efforts are not aimed at contesting the 2004 Election results.

I do find it interesting though that the Democratic Party actually chose voting problems as the focus of their weekly address.

[corbett]

1. Great Message, Poor Messenger

I have great respect for Ms. Brazile's accomplishments AFTER 2000 but she has zero charisma in my book. Her race certainly will help this crucial message resonate but I tend to think that another choice could have been made with a more effective result.

[delphine]

2. Looks like Donna

is their candidate for chairperson for the DNC . . .

She wrote a "voters bill of rights" that was posted at one time on the DNC website. It included voter verified paper trials -

But you can't find that on the website anymore, or anywhere else. I googled forever and couldn't find it.

So Donna, if you knew 18 months ago that paper trails were important, why didn't you and Terry McAwful do something about it?

[Tom Rinaldo]

4. Brazile ruled herself out as a candidate this time.

Her name was initially being thrown around but she quashed it. I think she pulled out before Vilsack did.

[jamboi]

3. Great! I'll take it. Go Donna! nt

[Tom Rinaldo]

5. Here's a link to the full text.

http://www.notthistimegeorge.org/framer.cfm?liid=589&hl=0