Election Reform, Fraud, & Related News Tuesday 7/26/06 2+2=5 Edition

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Election Reform, Fraud, & Related News Tuesday 7/26/06 2+2=5 Edition





The Matrix
by Spencer Overton, Tue Jul 25, 2006 at 06:53:01 AM EST

The following ideas are from the introductory chapter of the book Stealing Democracy: The New Politics of Voter Suppression.


"In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it."

-George Orwell, Nineteen-Eighty Four


In The Matrix, thirty-something Thomas Anderson (Keanu Reeves) plods through life as a software programmer at the megacorporation Metacortex. Neo intuitively suspects that something is amiss in the world. As the story unfolds, Neo is guided to Morpheus.



Morpheus eventually explains. "It's that feeling you have had all your life. That feeling that something was wrong with the world. . . . The Matrix is everywhere, it's all around us, here even in this room. . . . It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth."


But contrary to conventional perception, American democracy is not an organic, grassroots phenomenon that mirrors society's preferences. In reality, the will of the people is channeled by a pre-determined matrix of thousands of election regulations and practices that most people accept as natural: the location of election district boundaries, voter registration deadlines, and the type and number of voting machines at a busy polling place. This structure of election rules, practices, and decisions filters out certain citizens from voting and organizes the electorate. There is no "right" to vote outside of the terms, conditions, hurdles, and boundaries set by the matrix. http://www.mydd.com/story/2006/7/25/6531/89990



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