10-21-2012, 05:32 AM
I think the despair stems, in large measure, from the shameless Republican efforts to suppress voting, i.e., ID laws, trashed and altered registrations, reduced voting hours, misallocation of voting machines, incorrect voting information in print and over the phone, ownership of voting machines by Republican contributors (and now in Ohio and elsewhere by Romney's son and other Bain people), etc. The list goes on. And that's just what we know about.
We know Ohio was stolen in 2004; Florida in 2000. I won't recount the facts on those now.
Jimmy Carter says that voting in the US does not meet minimum international standards for integrity and transparency. We have the worst system in the developed world. There are third world countries that could give us lessons in real democracy. We have privatized our voting process, but it's in the hands of a small number of people, not "We the people".
We know Ohio was stolen in 2004; Florida in 2000. I won't recount the facts on those now.
Jimmy Carter says that voting in the US does not meet minimum international standards for integrity and transparency. We have the worst system in the developed world. There are third world countries that could give us lessons in real democracy. We have privatized our voting process, but it's in the hands of a small number of people, not "We the people".