Guest Blogged by Alan Breslauer
Will The 2008 Vote Be Fair? That was the topic addressed by host David Brancaccio and former Justice Department official David Becker on NOW last Friday. Part I (at left, 10:01) begins with a discussion of Photo ID laws to prevent the “invented problem” of voter fraud. The discussion continues at the 6:15 mark on the topics of voter caging and voter purging — when the DoJ requires jurisdictions to purge their voter rolls when they do not match census estimates.
Part II (at right, 9:50) begins with Becker explaining how the Bush 43 Justice Department has subverted its traditional mission: “During about a five year span, not one single case was brought on behalf of African Americans in the Voting Section of the Civil Rights Division”. Becker goes on to state that policies were established that favored Republicans and disfavored Democrats in an effort to “gam[e] the system” to retain power.
Next, Brancaccio and Becker explore how the U.S. Attorney scandal fits in to the bigger picture. Becker: “The DoJ, especially under Alberto Gonzales, was being used as an arm of the right wing of the Republican Party to effectuate partisan gains in elections”. Finally, the program concludes with a discussion on voting machines and Florida’s 13th District.
Thanks for posting this.
Will the vote be fair in ’08? no way, there is still too many people with their head in the sand
Democrats – already starting to complain about their upcoming 2008 election losses … looking for excuses, looking for someone, anyone, to blame, other than themselves and their treasonous, socialist agenda to derail America.
What a pity that otherwise seemingly intelligent folk can behave so insanely because they don’t get their way in everything, every single time.
LOL – Why hasn’t Madame Pelosi fixed all these ‘problems’ …??
Oh, no that would take away the built-in excuses for such immature behavior.
You can now ‘toe-tap’ your way out of here now Ricky
(see Mitt stacking the polls above)
My concern is that the corporate agenda has already been laid out and we will all be surprised, as democrats, when it turns out corporations aren’t supporting a republican this time around. Fascism doesn’t care who’s in charge as long as that person has promised to keep the corporate agenda motoring along.
California testing of the electronic voting machines to be used all across the nation come November of 2008 do not offer much encouragement for a tamper free vote count. Many flaws with these electronic vote counting machines are again being found.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars...-machines.html