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[chanaleh]

Bunch o' links from my friend Ben in Oklahoma: E-voting fraud rampant in states without paper trails. (Duh! Yes, I know, but here:)

http://www.bluelemur.com/index.php?p=388
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/2004votefraud.html
http://www.blackboxvoting.com/
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1699421,00.asp
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0310/S00211.htm
http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,65535,00.html?tw=wn_story_mailer

Kerry let us all down with his poor excuse for a campaign, and now he's letting us all down by passively stepping back when he should be fighting this into the ground. How can he? How?

Comments

[besamim.livejournal.com]

Listen, I wanted Kerry to win too. But with respect, do any of you really want the country to go through a second consecutive election-via-judicial-fiat? That would do even more damage to public confidence in the electoral process. And, let's face it, Bush's lead is so big this time that a recount wouldn't make a difference.

Kerry may not have been the best candidate for the Democrats, but he worked hard. He did the best he knew how to do. I suspect that for the moment he wants to rest, recuperate, move on, and let the public try to do the same. I realize fully it won't be easy for the bitterly divided public to do so, but happen it must.

Rather than go on for another four years crying, "Bush stole the election; he's not really our president, woe, woe," progressives should work all the harder to limit the impact of Bush's domestic and foreign agenda. This can be done, even with Republican control of Congress. Look at how some (though sadly not all) of the Patriot Act's more draconian provisions have been struck down by the courts, thanks to the efforts of progressive activists. Further back in history, look at how Reagan backed away from his "evil empire" and "we can win a limited nuclear war" rhetoric, and re-opened SALT talks with the U.S.S.R., in the face of public protest and anti-nuke activism.

Remember MoveOn.org? It's time for Democrats and their supporters to take their own advice.