Election Rejection And The Grieveing Process

Update: As part of my grief therapy, I had to deal with the anger; and this post was just one of many that served that purpose. While I still believe that there were many blatant and suspicious voting problems, I have been shown the error of dwelling too much on these voting problems. Such negative focus on the 2000 problems may have hurt the democrats this time around and further rending of garments and gnashing of teeth over this election, may hurt the turnout in future elections.

Mike Norton has, once again, enlightened me with this link. Here is an excerpt...

However, for the Democrats to allow the widespread impression to stand that our leadership and spokespeople, including us in the blogosphere, think that the 2000 and 2004 elections were subject to actual election fraud by the GOP or their surrogates, with the current absence of evidence, is nothing less than political suicide. It will depress voter turnout among our base, and it will create a wall of contempt between us and the millions of persuadable voters we need to attract.

I must reluctantly agree with this and warn you to continue reading this post in the dispirited spirit that it was written in and keep the title of this blog in mind.

The Florida election debacle of 2000 gave way to the War on Error that might have allowed for a debacle (or another theft) to go by unnoticed. Every state was so eager to avoid the problems that plagued Florida, that they made sacrifices at the alter of electronic voting. An almost complete turnover of our election process to this mostly untested system of vote tallying has left many suspicious of the results.

Here are a few interesting links for your perusal...

Fixed - The Stealing of Another Election

Computer Scientist Cautious of E-Voting

Computer May Have Lost 4,500 N.C. Votes

E-Voting Concerns Outlast Election

And Slate, as always, covers the whole situation regarding the blogosphere's suspicions quite nicely.

Here is a nice opinion piece about the possibility of a political hack...

Never Say Die-bold...


Of course, Ohio is not a state that relied heavily on e-voting. No, it still relies heavily on punch card ballots; the type that result in hanging chads and other nightmares. When these ballots are in doubt, they are simply discarded. Here is a link that explains that the spoils of the election just might have gone to the loser... making him the winner.

Kerry Won

Is all of this tin-foil hat territory or did the Bush League simply find a better way to defraud the electorate?