[Vision2020] Triumph for People Power After Ukraine Vote Annulled

[Tbertruss at aol.com]

Dick et. al.

One of the tricks to "stealing" an election is to have the votes you don't 
want not happen in the first place.  Regardless of what any recount in Ohio may 
reveal, there is no way to get back the lost votes for people who gave up due 
to long lines at the polls due to a planned shortage of voting machines in 
some areas voting democratic, carried out by republicans in Ohio, or the poll 
observers sent out by republicans to "monitor" voters, intimidating some voters 
and creating more delays at the polls.  Republicans had control of many aspects 
of the voting systems in Ohio, due to their political power in that state, 
and they used this control in a partisan manner to tilt the vote their way.

The recount in Ohio, if it occurs, will not reveal how many votes never 
happened in the first place due to inadequacies in the voting system, and 
deliberate stymieing of voters who wanted to vote.

It is a no-brainer that we should turn all election activities to nonpartisan 
groups, or at least mandate an equal power sharing nationally for all voting 
systems among the major political parties.

When a state holds an election and the state's election system has critical 
political positions of power held by very partisan players, we have the 
proverbial fox guarding the hen house scenario.

As far as the Ukraine election, it is interesting to see the Bush 
administration in some respects backing the challenge to this election, but then the 
politician making the challenge in the Ukraine is more pro-west.  If the challenge 
was from someone unfriendly to US interests, would we see an argument from 
the Bush administration and republicans that the election challenge in the 
Ukraine is an attempt to disrupt the democratic process using lawyers and the 
courts, like they said about Gore in 2000, and now about the demands for recounts 
here in the US in Ohio, and in Washington in the governors race, which is going 
to a full state recount? 

Ted Moffett
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