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Yes, I wish Kerry had not conceded so quickly, and demanded more effort towards recounts and investigations into fraud, incompetence and abuse of the Right to Vote. What especially is needed is real teeth to enforce the Voting Rights Act: people need to be charged with a crime in a court when they engage in activities designed to disenfranchise voters. From what I have gathered, there is weak or nonexistent enforcement of the Voting Rights Act. Consider that even though felony violations of voting law were discovered in court cases in Florida 2000, no one was charged, as far as I know. If I am wrong, someone provide the evidence.<BR>
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I say this not in a partisan hope that Kerry would win, but for the sake of the effort to reform our election systems, so every citizen is encouraged and has the means to vote without difficulty. Unless there is a sea change in how we conduct elections, fraud and abuse and deliberate disenfranchisement will continue indefinitely.<BR>
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But even Michael Moore, when he appeared in a formal suit on the Tonight Show, asserted that Bush won because he got more votes.<BR>
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What amazes me is how many US citizens appear unconcerned about the evidence of hundreds of thousands of disenfranchised voters nationwide, citizens and voters from all political persuasions.<BR>
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And many republicans seem to adopt the "winning is everything" attitude. As long as their guy got the White House, all the focus on vote fraud and disenfranchisement is just grumbling from sore losers. The Republican Party is the party of firm moral values? Not if you were a black person trying to vote in certain areas of Ohio.<BR>
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Cynicism rules!<BR>
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Ted Moffett</FONT></HTML>