http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2005/01/19/irreconcilable/ Irreconcilable
On the eve of Inauguration Day, many who voted against the president haven't come to terms with his reelection
By Don Aucoin, Globe Staff | January 19, 2005
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At least one activist who believes there was widespread vote fraud in November is unimpressed by Kerry's salvo. ''Whatever he says means little or nothing to me," Joseph A. Lopisi, a member of the Coalition Against Election Fraud, said yesterday. ''Speaking means nothing; actions mean everything. He didn't take action. He could have joined that lawsuit in Ohio. He could have put a lot of money into securing the voting machines in Ohio and Florida."
Lopisi, a 56-year-old attorney from Arlington who said he was not active in a political organization before joining the coalition, recently helped distribute to congressional representatives a 250-page summary of what he called evidence of ''voter fraud, voter suppression, and computer manipulation." He was also part of a recent vigil outside Kerry's Beacon Hill home that sought to persuade the senator to join the fight against formal congressional certification of the election results.
That battle did not succeed. Senator Barbara Boxer, Democrat of California, was the sole senator to join Representative Stephanie Tubbs Jones, Democrat of Ohio, and a small band of other House lawmakers in a failed bid on Jan. 6 to block congressional certification. House majority leader Tom Delay, a Republican, mocked the effort as inspired by ''the 'X-Files' wing of the Democrat Party." A spokesman for House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert, a Republican, said Democratic opponents were ''just trying to stir up their loony left."
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As for Lopisi, he plans to continue his efforts to, in his words, ''bring Mr. Bush and his administration to justice for stealing two elections."
He does not trust the media to do it -- ''They make us look like idiots, conspiratorial" -- and he does not trust Congress to do it. So this week he launched a website, www.bushstole04.com, that includes links to other websites launched by citizens' groups that contain information about voter fraud. ''It's really up to the everyday person to realize they're not finding the truth from the media and the entire system is corrupt," Lopisi said.
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