I am coming across more and more articles these days documenting in detail how local and state (mostly Republican, although that may simply reflect my reading habits) election officials are constantly coming up with new ways to rig elections, deny voters their rights and otherwise swing elections towards their side. Things are getting even nastier than in 2000 out there and I fear that unless the American public wakes up and starts protesting these actions vigorously, they will only get worse. And that inevitably means 4 more years of radical right-wing consolidation of power, increased snooping on American citizens and the stripping of their civil rights, and increased influence for the corporate powers-that-be behind Bush's initial rise in politics (re: oil and other fossil fuel energy giants).
Good article on the election issue: http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/973/
Anyone out there going to go to NYC and protest the GOP convention?
On a personal note: things here have been hectic to say the least, so I apologize to you ones of my faithful readers out there for not posting more often.
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