As bad as things are, they can always be worse...

[brooklynite]

Voting Coercion Charges Fly in Calif. City

VERNON, Calif. - It took a judge's order to force the first local election in 25 years in this industrial city, and it was a contest filled with allegations of intimidation, harassment and undercover surveillance.

And it wasn't over when the polls closed, either.

On Tuesday night, a clerk promptly carried a metal ballot box into the City Council chamber and announced he would not count the votes.

The bizarre, and some say illegal, decision was just the latest eyebrow-raising political turn in Vernon, a city on the edge of Los Angeles where the mayor and council members have served for decades without opposition and most of the voters hold municipal jobs while living in city-owned houses.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060412/ap_on_el_st_lo/disputed_election_2

[politicaholic]

1. Yeesh, talk about machine politics...

there's always that one disgustingly honest person that has to ruin the party for everyone. pfft, you can't expect democracy to be EVERYWHERE.

[Capn Sunshine]

2. Vernon was concieved as a corporate haven

Its residential area is a joke. There's more hotel rooms in the city than "residents". The city was chartered as a place for large corporations to develop and locate proximate to LA with significantly more lax pollution regulations , among other things.

So , this is not very surprising to the natives.

[DianaForRussFeingold]

3. Put this all together, Election LIES,Election Fraud 'Must Stop Them'

Thank You,This is part of the scheme. Here's a direct link to the video at Brad's Blog. http://www.iwilltryit.com/fixed1.htm “If You Tell a Lie” song;Reminds me of Cindy Shehan
http://www.blamesally.com/video.html

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