Reply #3: It a a big problem that the Democrats have never hads a plan

[Jack Rabbit]

The systematic disenfranchisement of voters is as much election fraud as getting voters to rise from their graves to vote for the Daly machine's or Tammany Hall's slate. Disenfransechisement may take the form of purges in voter rolls aimed at dempgraphic groups that characteristically vote for the opposition (I'm talking to you, Ms. Harris), the unequal supplying of precincts based on voting history (I'm talking to you, Mr. Blackwell), outright intimidation (I'm talking to you, Jeb), or confusing ID requirements (Mr. Blackwell, I'm talking to you yet again).

After disenfranchisement, we can talk about electronic voting machines that count the votes by supply no paper trail to account for the votes. What's worse is that the software has been ruled the property of the manufacturer of the equipment and is beyond public scrutiny. "Trust me," says Walden O'Dell, president of Diebold, as he promises to deliver Ohio to Bush.

As things stand now, surveys indicate that the Democrats will win control of the House of Representatives and stand a better than even chance of winning control of the Senate. Results greatly at odds with those expectations will not be accepted.



Kiev, 2005
Photo: Ukrainian Embassy, Belgium