Reply #28: I e-mailed C. Weiser

[Liberalynn]

Here is the letter: It's been awhile since I've written anything formally and hope it sounds okay. I picked him because the editorial list provided said he was in charge of Federal issue news.

What happened to fair and unbiased reporting? No one is asking you to post headlines all over your paper that the election was stolen. What we as American citizens have a right to expect, however, is a right to hear both sides of an argument presented in an unbiased manner so we can then decide the facts for ourselves. I know in the society we currently live in this may not be popular but it is your duty none the less as a member of the Fourth Estate.

It's funny how the press, politicians, actors etc tell us we have to vote. It is our duty as citizens to vote, rock the vote, every vote counts, and on and on. Yet when it comes to the bottom line very few are willing to stand up for this principle. Do our votes really mean anything if even one or two end up getting counted towards a candidate the voter didn't intend to vote for? If we are going to deem these as "acceptable and excusable errors" then will we too then quit trying to perpetrate the lie then that every vote counts because it is no longer true. Plus if it goes to a person you never cast it for to begin with, it is even worse than it not being counted at all. How is a person supposed to trust that their vote happened to be counted right?

Also I keep reading if the margin is wide between the candidates that means there wasn't fraud. Well hypothetically say a student went in and changed through the schools' main computer his/her science grade to A and left all their other grades C? Does this make it any less unacceptable or unethical. Should the principal suspect more or less that there was tampering to begin with?

What if instead the student went in and changed all their grades and all their classmates grades to As. Should they count on the fact that the principle is just going to accept that the entire class turned into geniuses over night and that he won't check it because it will take too much time, effort, and money to look into the situation?

I'm not saying fraud happened. I don't know. There are points to be made on both sides of the argument.

All I'd like to see is an opportunity to see the arguments from those who feel there were irregularities in the November 2, 2004 U.S. election without seeing them mocked for exercising their democratic right to express concern over such a fundamental right as voting in a true republic.

Why then have Jessie Jackson's statements about concern of election fraud not been handled in such a fair manner by your paper? Why did coverage only show up only on an editorial page where Mr. Jackson's concerns were openly mocked by your columnist?


I think you should take care to present both sides of this issue fairly in the future. Anything less is disservice to the role the Fourth Estate has always had in helping to preserve that which Americans hold most dear which is a government for the people and by the people."

Linda from NY State.

I tried to proof as best as I could before hand but I know there were some grammatical errors.