Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
“”¦”¦.all types of conniving methods are still being used to prevent Negroes from becoming registered voters. The denial of this sacred right is a tragic betrayal of the highest mandates of our democratic traditions and its is democracy turned upside down.
So long as I do not firmly and irrevocably possess the right to vote I do not possess myself. I cannot make up my mind “” it is made up for me. I cannot live as a democratic citizen, observing the laws I have helped to enact “” I can only submit to the edict of others. So our most urgent request to the president of the United States and every member of Congress is to give us the right to vote.” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., excerpted from a speech that Dr. King delivered before the Lincoln Memorial at the March on Washington, on May 17, 1957, three years after Brown v. Board of Education and eight years before the enactment of the Voting Rights Act….
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… John Gideon Said…
“Canada – E-voting: the next wave of democracy?”
That link doesn’t work, perhaps because the article is no longer first up? This works for now.
http://www.hfxnews.ca/index.cfm...132&sc=89
The NYT had an excellent article today on the problems with e-voting. I think it is behind the “Times Select” firewall but here is the link.
“On November 2, 1998, the night before the general election, ABCNEWS.COM posted the following: “Earlier tonight, during testing of the ABCNEWS.COM site, we inadvertently posted results and erroneous predictions on the outcomes of races. There was no bias intended by what we posted and the predictions do not reflect the reporting or news judgment of ABC News.”
http://www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd243.htm
On my link above, lets add this,
” Notice the key word used in their statement: results. Was this just a glitch and how accurate were these numbers released a full 12 hours before any polls opened in America? A complete analysis of all the results posted and the “final” totals reflect that ABC News was off .0174%. What would you say the odds of that happening are and don’t you wish you’d bet a bundle on their numbers?”
Bill Moyer’s speech in Memphis, at the 3rd annual Media Reform Conference…
http://play.rbn.com/?url=demnow...038;start=7:15
One man come in the name of love
One man come and go
One come he to justify
One man to overthrow
In the name of love
What more in the name of love
In the name of love
What more in the name of love
One man caught on a barbed wire fence
One man he resist
One man washed on an empty beach.
One man betrayed with a kiss
In the name of love
What more in the name of love
In the name of love
What more in the name of love
Early morning, April 4
Shot rings out in the Memphis sky
Free at last, they took your life
They could not take your pride
In the name of love
What more in the name of love
In the name of love
What more in the name of love
In the name of love
What more in the name of love…
Pride (In the Name of Love) [UK 12″]U2 1984
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8Pnlhs7grQ