[lbo-talk] Alexander Cockburn: 9/11 nuts have relocated to Stolen Election

[Marta Russell]

>
>Do I think the election was stolen? No more than usual. The 
>Democrats are  getting worse at it and the Republicans better. Back 
>in 1960 it was the  other way round. The best documented stolen 
>election in history is  probably the one that put Lyndon Johnson in 
>the US Senate. Next came the  one that gave JFK the White House. So, 
>for sure there's vote suppression  in Ohio and Florida. I don't 
>think it made the crucial difference.
>

I see it as a chance to clean up some of the shenanigans. The efforts 
spurred fourteen members of
Congress, led by Rep. John Conyers of Michigan, to request a 
Goverment Accountability Office (GAO) investigation of the 2004 
presidential election.  Earlier this week, the GAO announced that it 
will investigate "the security and accuracy of voting technologies, 
distribution and allocation of voting machines and counting of 
provisional ballots."

Some good may come of this.  Then again, it could end in a whitewash 
of the problems.  But our hypocritical critique of the Ukraine 
election is a bit much when blacks continue to be repressed at the 
polls since they were given the right to vote.  It is shameful and it 
should be brought to a halt.  That would be time well spent.

Marta
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