It looks increasingly like Rick Scott's win is illegitimate. If so, what do we do?

[deutsey]

46. Nope, just the world-weary observation of someone who's been in the fight

for protecting voting rights since 2000.

I was saying if all we did to correct what happened in 2000 (voter purges, the obviously biased Bush v. Gore) and to make electronic ballots more transparent and independently accountable in 2004, it's hard for me to believe much will come of these reports about current voter suppression.

Greg Palast is doing some good investigations into the new Jim Crow efforts just as he did with Jeb Bush purging people from Florida's voter rolls. It's outrageous and I'm glad he's digging into it and that there's a record of it, but will he expose the illegitimacy of Scott's election and overturn it? Did his reporting (along with the efforts of many of us) do that to Bush/Cheney?

Have I given up? No. I'm just being realistic.

But more power to anyone who can make this underhanded voter suppression an issue that will grow legs.