The New Road

Votergate

You should watch this movie.

I think white Democrats are just starting to understand what black Democrats have experienced for years. The Republicans have extended their Dixiecrat election tactics, from their base of voter intimidation and suppression, into electronic vote tampering. This movie demonstrates how easy it is to change a vote count. It's almost as if Dieblod wanted Repbulican operatives to be able to change votes. I note, for example, that I got a receipt from the Diebold ATM I used this morning. If Diebold were serious about stopping election tampering wouldn't adding a receipt be the first thing they would do?

Of course, the Republicans took it too far this time. Some reports say that the Florida counts were about 1/4 million over what they should have been for Bush had the voting machines not been tampered with. In some counties where historical norms would have put Kerry at 80%, and exit polling put Kerry at 80%, the resulting vote was 80% for Bush. Whoops. I guess Rove added an extra zero. It's the brazenness the amazes me. It's as if they don't even care if we know that they tampered with the results of the election. It's Jesus' will I guess.

I was listening to NPR this morning and they had a story about the bad old days of Guatemala. It shook me up a little because it sounded so much like what is going on, and what could happen, right here.