The Sounds of Voting - and Check Writing

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The Sounds of Voting - and Check Writing

http://www.truthout.org/110108Y

aturday 01 November 2008

by: Bill Moyers and Michael Winship, t r u t h o u t | Perspective

Of the upcoming presidential election, Bill Moyers and Michael Winship ask: "How can there be change when so much money is coming from the usual big business suspects?" (Illustration: Th. Nast)

Our Manhattan offices are in a building that also houses the New York City Board of Elections. So this is the season when we hear above our heads the sounds of heavy objects rolling across the floor into freight elevators. The moving men have arrived - and what they're transporting are voting machines being carted off to polling places.

It's reassuring, the sound of those big metal boxes being rolled out so we can cast our votes, but all too often in our fair city (as no doubt where you live, too) we are confronted by an end run on the part of a political elite, many of whom don't really trust what comes out of the ballot box on Election Day unless they've fixed what goes in.