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Sir Jeffrey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-22-05 02:20 PM
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Greg Palast interview you may have missed from last weekend...
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"The danger would be, just like the Civil Rights Commission before it, that if we particularize it to Ohio, we miss the goddamn point. The problem is systematic. It’s national. It’s racist. It’s classist.

You cannot fix the system through technical means. They tried that in 2000 and ended up with the provisional ballot, which was originally intended as a reform. Actually, it was Conyers who proposed the fucking provisional ballot and now he’s writing a report saying this is one of the worst things that ever happened to us.

If you don’t address the main issue, which is racism in vote counting, and you don’t address our failure to commit ourselves to democracy, then forget it—there is no technical fix which will work. Provisional ballots, computer voting, punch cards—forget all of that shit. That’s not what it’s about. There is no technical fix to democracy except a commitment to vote and a punishment that if they don’t count the votes, you’re going to go into the streets."

more here:
http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=408&row=0
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BrklynLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-22-05 02:51 PM
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1. That was the whole point of why those Democrats should have stood up with
Barbara Boxer and the Black Caucus members! It was not just about Ohio. It was about pervasive election fraud. Those rubber-spined democrats that spoke and then did not stand up were totally useless.
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Sir Jeffrey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-22-05 04:09 PM
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2. That is why it is out duty to run them out during the primaries n/t
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