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Subordinating nation's secular values to zealots' will

Following the president's re-election by the electoral synod last week, the sentimental apoplectic in me couldn't help picturing the last scene in "The Day After," the movie about a nuclear holocaust. Shredded and shrunken, Jason Robards' doctor-character sits on the rubble of his house as the camera pans out to reveal a flattened Lawrence, Kan.

What hydrogen bombs couldn't do to the Democratic Party, Karl Rove and George W. Bush finally did, with a little help from a ringer. Five votes swung the election Bush's way four years ago. It took just one vote this time -- Osama bin Laden's, cast with impeccable timing over the last three years to keep fear the value-added commodity it's been for the Bush administration. Without fear, there could be no crusade (against heathens abroad and at home, but mostly at home), and, without crusade, there could be no appeal to the deciding factor in American politics: the religious bloc. So, the 2004 election panned out as a choice between committed evangelicals and committed secularists. Evangelicals won.

Ohio Status today

What is going on today in OH? Is anyone challenging Blackwell's illegal discard of votes based on the date standard?

It is indeed bitterly ironic that Mr. Blackwell, an African American whose forefathers were not allowed to vote, is now engaged in the prevention of voting by others of his same race, and certainly in his same state. It is shameful.

Paul A. Thompson

My advice

EAT SHIT & DIE!

Kerry Laramore
Baytown, Texas

More subtle vote fraud??

America,

Is miscounting votes the only way this election could have been manipulated? I was told by filling out a form when my driver's license was renewed, I would be registered to vote. Months later, excited about democracy, I went to the polls, only to be turned away because there was no record of it, nor acknowledgement of the existence of the system for registering that I was led to believe was the simplest and least error-prone. I was also misinformed by the election worker that sprang to action when I asked what recourse I had, that filling out a provisional ballot would have no effect on this election. I do not think there is a coincidence here. Nor is it one that my wife had the same exact experience, independently. The New York Times is quick to legitimize the election and delegitimize news sources that are not itself. I hope your organization can succeed in its mission. I hope this account helps. When I saw this morning, in my usual news source, that someone had already thought of the name for a website that I realized a few days ago would be the perfect one to effect change in this country, I decided to help, rather than dream about

Wasserman's 'abandoned' article

Dear Mr. Wasserman,

Please stop smashing Kerry. He gets enough of that from gloating RightWingers. I would guess that after the media crucified Gore for kicking, he is trying to be smarter about this. He's probably been advised to keep his head down long enough to see whether there will be enough outcry about the voting irregularities to warrant coming out with a statement and exposing himself to a new onslaught from furious Republicans, or, far worse politically, ridicule from the media.

Ashcroft

Let freedom ring

I hear you on the vote count and I support you all the way!!!! Let all our voices be heard! And they say Bush won the "moral" vote! What a joke! I am hearing you loud and clear in Grand Rapids MI Keep up the fight! Let everyone of those votes be counted and let's see what major news network reports it. It has been pretty quite so far. Wonder why?

Carolyn M. Sherman re: Slip-sliding away in Columbus

I read your story "Slip-sliding away in Columbus" (http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2004/850).

I live in Tarrant County, TX, near Fort Worth. Our county used optical scan ballots. Most precincts had only 1 working machine, some may have had zero. However, since the ballots were all paper and could be tabulated at a central location if necessary, it didn't matter - all that mattered was how fast the election judge could check you in. Most places could easily handle a few hundred voters per hour, and lines of longer than 10 minutes were rare outside of peak voting times. Also, we have thousands of voting precincts for a county of less than 2 million people.

I heard horror stories of long lines around the country, but none as bad as yours. I can only hope that the people of the state of Ohio will say "ENOUGH" and demand shorter lines in the future, and ante up the money it takes to have more polling locations.

On an unrelated topic, I hope the planned recount

Comment re: "Why Did John Kerry Abandon His Crew (US!) in Battle?",

QUOTE: "If Kerry hadn't conceded, the right wingers would have screamed bloody murder. But what else is new?"

Well, and while "playing" "conspiracy theorist", I'd say that the answer to that rhetorically indented question of Mr. Wasserman's is or at least may possibly be that the two most likely candidates to win the 2004 US presidential election - Bush and Kerry - were two Bonesmen - "Order of Skull & Bones" - facing or - pretending, anyway - confronting each other. And the allegiance the members of S&B members have amongst each other is stronger, given a considerably higher priority than duty to nation, honesty, fairness, etc.

As you have already guessed, I certainly don't know the above fact(s) actually had anything to do with the 2004 election; however, there's certainly at least reason to carefully consider the possibility that this indeed was a present element.

Wasserman

We can't change what happened, we can't change what Kerry did. That was yesterday. Today we must continue the fight. We must do what Kucinich has taught us. We stay in the battle to the very end. The end doesn't happen until the electoral college votes.

We the People are the ones in charge, not the DNC, not John Kerry. I say we follow Kucinich's example and STAY. I know in my heart we can overturn the election results. We in Boone NC are gathering, we are going to pressure the media to cover this.

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