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<DIV>There she goes again -- Auntie Establishment makin' sense, thinkin' smart,
and kickin' rhetorical butt.</DIV>
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<DIV>Thanks, Joan. I'm free Jan. 20, my eldest son's birthday. I
think he'd agree it's a wonderful way to ring in his 16th birthday, born as
he was on the day of GHW Bush's inauguration.</DIV>
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<DIV>keely emerine mix</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>From:</B> <A
href="mailto:auntiestablishment@hotmail.com">Joan Opyr</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">Vision2020 Moscow</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A
href="mailto:debismith@moscow.com">Debi Robinson-Smith</A> ; <A
href="mailto:ppalmer@moscow.com">Pam Palmer</A> ; <A
href="mailto:ltrwritr@moscow.com">Mark Rounds</A> ; <A
href="mailto:wallis@moscow.com">Jim Wallis</A> ; <A
href="mailto:nielsen@uidaho.edu">Ralph Nielsen</A> ; <A
href="mailto:susanp@moscow.com">Susan Palmer</A> ; <A
href="mailto:asmoucha@hotmail.com">Amy Smoucha</A> ; <A
href="mailto:hayfields@moscow.com">Heather Jordan</A> ; <A
href="mailto:jeanne@mail.turbonet.com">Jeanne Clothiaux</A> ; <A
href="mailto:LBlackburn@turbonet.com">LBlackburn@turbonet.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, November 08, 2004 10:28
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Vision2020] Disenfranchisement
(was re: Conspiracy?)</DIV>
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<DIV>Dear Dan, Pat, Donovan, etc., </DIV>
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<DIV>First, exit polls reflect the views of those who choose to answer.
I've been quizzed many times by exit pollsters (in Raleigh, NC and
Columbus, OH) and never once have I been harassed. I was asked if I'd
like to share information about how I'd voted, and I was free to say yes or
no. I always said yes. Others said no. No one was chased
down and beaten with a clipboard until they were so angry they felt obliged to
lie. BTW, I'd be wary of anything I heard on a radio call-in show,
especially if it were one those right-wing idiot soapbox specials like Hannity
or Limbaugh -- I heard a call once in which a white voter very
carefully explained how, through a series of seemingly unrelated events,
affirmative action had killed her cousin. (Remember the old joke:
Secular Humanism gonna get your mama? It worked something like
that.)</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Second, black and other minority voters are disenfranchised
disproportionately more often than white voters. Typically, as in Ohio
this year, the disenfranchisement takes the form of what's called vote
spoilage, AKA the old pregnant chad. Ballots are discarded at the
discretion of the precinct supervisors if they appear to be insufficiently
punched, double-punched, or inadequately punched. This is what happens
when people are obliged to use old machines or machines that are not equipped
to handle the number of voters assigned to them. In busy precincts in
Cleveland where voters should have had three or four machines available
to them, they had only two. Hence the long lines and the machine
failures. It's easy to wind up with a pregnant chad when the chad
catcher is full -- sort like when your little three-hole punch fills up
with paper circles. Ever tried that? Doesn't work so well, does
it?</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>As for Clinton having been elected twice, the second time, he won by more
than 10%. I think you're confusing disenfranchisement, Dan, with
losing. They're not the same thing. When Ronald Reagan won in 1980
and 1984, I was not disenfranchised; I was pissed off. I was
disgusted. I was angrier than the blind snake who'd married the garden
hose. But those elections were free and fair; there was no Diebold way
back then giving Mr. Reagan extra electronic votes in Ohio and North
Carolina -- and we've already found more than 8000 of those for Mr. Bush
without even really looking. In the meantime, we know that more
than 150,000 "spoiled" paper ballots were discarded in Ohio. I don't
know about you, but that smells like old fish to me. Stinky, bloated,
Rovian smelt. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>If I'd cast a ballot in a largely black precinct in Cleveland rather than
here in quiet white Idaho, I'd be rioting about now. (Are you listening,
John Ashcroft? I'm shouting fire in an empty Red State theater.)</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Joan Opyr/Auntie Establishment</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>PS: I've been thinking about the Bush "mandate," and you know, 51% does
not a mandate make. I've also been thinking about Ted's election
2000 protest in Seattle; I've been watching the movie <EM>Iron-Jawed
Angels</EM>; and I've decided that what we need on inauguration
day is a "49% March." Nearly half of this nation
voted last Tuesday to give Mr. Bush his walking papers. We
need to remind him of this, forcefully. If anyone on this list is
interested in helping me organize an inauguration day protest parade (complete
with a marching band and floats), email me. Let's get a grip
here. Half of us still think the country is on the wrong track.
Half of us still think the war in Iraq is a disaster, that we don't need
any more tax cuts for the wealthy, that Social Security and Medicare and
the environment are worth saving, and we have no business on January
20th just rolling over and playing dead. A healthy democracy requires a
healthy opposition. Let's give ourselves a little CPR, a little
defibrillation. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><STRONG>THE 49% PARADE: JANUARY 20TH, RIGHT DOWN MAIN
STREET!!!</STRONG> </DIV>
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Carscallen</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, November 08, 2004 7:18
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial"><B>To:</B> 'Pat Kraut'; 'vision2020'</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial"><B>Subject:</B> RE: [Vision2020]
Conspiracy?</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>Conspiracy, schmonspiracy . . .<BR><BR>A couple
things: <BR><BR>The exit polls: my wife, who is quite
apolitical, told me that if<BR>someone badgered her about the way she voted,
she'd tell 'em the<BR>opposite of how she did just to screw with them.
"It's my vote, it's my<BR>business!" Bully for her.<BR><BR>The
disenfranchised voters: Hell, anyone who's candidate isn't on
the<BR>winning side is going to feel disenfranchised! How d'you think
I felt<BR>when Clinton won twice!<BR><BR>That'll do 'er for
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