I agree with Patrick that this is the most important domestic
political issue. Jon Meltzer is right, too: regardless of whether
any hanky-panky has happened yet, to be compelled to trust a
corporation not to steal an election--to put it another way, to
hope that they will allow a genuine election to be held--is
unacceptable.
But what do we do about it? If there is a conspiracy to permanently
fix our elections--or even if the Republicans are merely
ideologically determined to foist paper-trail-less electronic
voting machines on us--a few thousand people contacting their
representatives or writing letters to the editor won't be
enough.
I'm asking seriously; I really don't know. In an article in the
Oct. 9 NY Review of Books, Alexander Stille says "if something does
not appear on television, it does not exist." And even if, by some
miracle, this story did get on TV, would enough people care? The
Republicans stole the 2000 Presidential election, and even most
people who voted for Gore preferred to let the Supreme Court get
away with it rather than raise a stink.
On an earlier thread Patrick (iirc) scolded another poster for
saying that Diebold looked unstoppable. I'd like to be optimistic,
but I don't see much grounds for it.
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