Reply #224: election reform

[AtomicKitten]

There is an article in the current Rolling Stone. (It surprises me nobody can link to it because RFK's article was linked to before I even received my copy in the mail.) It's a follow-up on RFK's article, this one by Tim Dickinson entitled "The Battle for Ohio." It's an adjacent inset (don't know exactly what you call it) entitled "The 2006 Election: Will the Democrats Fight Back?" It talks about the letter Schumer and Emanuel sent to Blackwell in Ohio, prompted by RFK's piece in Rolling Stone. Brazile feels the infighting (you see it here too!!!) has Emanuel squabbling with Dean about strategy when in her opinion they should be focusing on election fraud and reform, even as Republicans are working feverishly to purge voter rolls.

Granted Brazile AND Dean (people forget her report on the Ohio 2004 election was a joint report with Dean) smoothed over the out-and-out fraud, but it did focus on the atrocious practices of voter disenfranchisement. I think one of the most poignant scenes from Ohio in 2004 was a black man standing in the rain saying he had been in line for six hours and would wait another six hours or whatever it takes to vote.

She also worked hard on getting the Katrina victims access to vote.

So, we may not agree with Brazile on some issues, but she is by no stretch of the imagination a "traitor" or working with Karl Rove.

IMO anybody working on this issue deserves a high-five. Because if we don't fix it, it will be too late. That point resonates in my world.