Lack of Election Reform Threatens to make all Progress Irrelevant

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The Gorilla in the Room Must Be Dealt With

Lack of Election Reform Threatens to Make All Progress Irrelevant.

by Anthony Wade

http://www.opednews.com

"The good fight has been fought for some years now. Progress has indeed been made."

"There is still an 800 pound gorilla in the room that only a handful seem to be talking about."

"That gorilla is election reform, or the lack thereof. Just today, the resident election reform experts, Fitrakis and Wasserman, warn us that the recent special election in Ohio, may also have been stolen. I say also because any objective review of the 2004 election reveals that it was indeed stolen. How else do you explain a man who cannot break a 49% approval rating, earning 11 million more votes than the previous election? Fraud. I have heard all the right wing blather in reaction to this. I do not object to the word conspiracy, because by definition, that is what this is. "

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"Whatever progress we think we have made in the past few years is completely irrelevant if the elections are not guaranteed to be fair."

"There are so many crimes out there being committed by this administration you can bet that they will do whatever they can to not lose control of either house in 2006. They correctly recognize that if that were to happen, then REAL investigations would ensue, complete with subpoena power."

"It is obvious that the tide has shifted and public opinion is rapidly drawing away from the party that has led us down this path of destruction. The majority of people in this country now correctly believe that Bush has lied to us about going to war and his personal ratings are plummeting. There is no question in my mind that if the elections were fair and honest, that the GOP would lose control in 2006 but the question remains, will they be fair?"

[AndyTiedye]

1. Doesn't Matter Who We Run if Diebold Counts the Votes

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Fixing the votes around the candidate.

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2. True. Any technology that blocks our ability to physically observe the

counting of the votes provides a much easier method of manipulating the overall tabulation.