John Conyers, Maxine Waters, and ten other Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee have written to Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell listing voting irregularities there, including counting irregularities and discrepancies, registration "peculiarities," unusual results, spoiled ballots, overvotes & vote discrepancies, machine problems, machine shortages, and rejected registration forms--which together "may have altered and suppressed votes, particularly minority and Democratic votes." Like when they refused to let anyone observe the Warren County vote count, locking down the building because of an alleged level 10 terrorist threat. No one at the FBI seems to have heard about this threat.
At Sunday's Solidarity meeting (the socialist brunch group), the view seemed to be that the socialist reason to care about this sort of thing is to connect with minority voters. Call me naive, but I can't help feeling it's just wrong to be disenfranchising people and rigging elections.
And then there's the affidavit from the fellow in Florida who says he was hired by Rep. Tom Feeny (R-FL) to write vote rigging software.
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Her face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, she sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage and hurls it in front of her feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm . . . . irresistibly propels her into the future to which her back is turned, while the pile of debris before her grows skyward. (Walter Benjamin, revised)
