Down the Election Rabbit Hole and Back Again

[kster]

September 21, 2007 at 16:13:22

by Victoria Parks

I happen to know that immediately after the election of 2004, an aide to then Ohio Sen. Mike DeWine, Mike Dawson, gathered editors at the Columbus Dispatch and basically told them there will be no investigations and not to bother with these many stories about the election. The message? "Everything went fine. Nothing happened. Nothing to see here. Move along now." It was at that time when I jumped down the rabbit hole and the adventures in election wonderland commenced for me. Wonderland was happening to us, without our consent. Alice was no longer in control. Suddenly We the People were not the ones allowed to write our own story.

Well, the stories tell themselves as it turns out. History sort of works out that way.

And, these stories keep telling themselves. We won't stop talking about them. These stories remain on our tongues and refuse to go away. We the People have had to rise in defense of our own democracy and we have paid dearly for it. We have been dismissed, denounced, demonized, demoralized, misrepresented, marginalized, minimized and ridiculed. Yet, We the People persisted and conducted our own investigations, uncovered evidence, crunched numbers, made phone calls, wrote letters, articles, emailed, archived, went to meetings, testified, filed lawsuits, etc. In fact, we were lambasted in the partisan media as "sore losers." We were told to "get over it." We were asked if we hadn't anything better to do with our time. Well, if today is not a good day to save democracy, when would be a good time? We have spent weeks away from our families, sacrificed going to our kid's soccer games to attend meetings, to organize?to demand redress for our broken elections.

HAVA, it was promised at the time, when it was being written in convicted congressman Bob Ney's office, with the aid of convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff and 275 thousand dollars from the Diebold Corporation, HAS NOT DELIVERED on its promise. The HELP America Vote Act has been misnamed. Realistically, it would be more aptly called the HACK America's Vote Act, or the HELP America's Vendors Act. This is not what we taxpayers, We the People, should be paying for.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_victoria_070921_down_the_election_ra.htm

Focus on the Ballots!!

[XemaSab]

1. The first rule of nerd club:

Do not mix Alice in Wonderland and LOTR metaphors! x(

[kster]

2. Are you the president of that club

:)

[XemaSab]

3. I'm totally not.

Ask Tyler Durden. :P

[kster]

4. I only have one thing to say

Focus on the ballots!! You will be glad that you did.

:)