Reply #28: Election Fraid

[dzika]

Friday, 31 December 2004


Election Fraid


57,000 voter complaints of "irregularities" in the 2004 election reported to the House Judiciary Committee. How many more went unreported?

I've watched the videos of people who waited in line for 2, 3, 4...up to 9 hours to vote because there were not enough voting machines in the predominantly minority and low income precincts. Or those who were got to the head of the line after 3 hours and were told they should have been in the other line across the room. Or those who were told that they were registered to vote beforehand and yet were only given a provisional ballot which may or may not have been counted when they went to the polling place. I've listened to the congressional hearings on the matter and the stories people have told about the problems with Republican voting machines and, more recently, the problems with the so-called "random" recount of the precincts in Ohio.

And yet nothing has been done. Can you really blame the Republicans though? I mean, this strategy worked in 2000 and many would say in 2002 as well. Why should they care about people who probably weren't going to vote Republican anyway


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