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Subject: [OM] Re: [OT] little rant on e-mail politeness
From: John Hudson <OM4T@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 22:13:59 -0300
No such problems in Canada thank goodness!

jh




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Winsor Crosby" <wincros@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2007 9:55 PM
Subject: [OM] Re: [OT] little rant on e-mail politeness


> 
> The list of problems in our last four elections is legion. People  
> threatened by police in their homes for organizing get out the vote  
> drives in their "wrong" neighborhood(Florida). Rejection of voter  
> registration applications because they were on the wrong weight of  
> paper after having them printed on the wrong weight paper and issuing  
> them to potential voters(Ohio)  Volunteer voter registration  
> campaigns run by the Republican Party in which all the registrations  
> for the opposing party were thrown into trash bins instead of being  
> filed so that the person could vote(Nevada). Voting machines counting  
> more votes in a precinct than registered voters, all for the party  
> that won(Ohio). Voting machines delivered in generous numbers to well- 
> to-do precincts and in inadequate numbers to working class  
> neighborhoods resulting in hours long waits to vote, while unused  
> machines sat in warehouses(Ohio). Voting machines stored without  
> security so that they could not be tampered with(Ohio). So called  
> "vote caging" which is a fraudulent practice of disqualifying voters  
> of the wrong persuasion(Ohio, Florida, New Mexico, Nevada). The  
> Republican Party has been under a legal injunction to since the late  
> 90's to no longer engage in the practice, but the recent Senate  
> judiciary committee hearings revealed that it was still being  
> practiced, but with no action by the Justice Department. Voters  
> challenged by party operatives because their name is on a caging list  
> and prevented from voting. A voter came forward(in Arizona, I  
> believe) and asked whether her vote could be rescinded because she  
> thought she was not properly registered. Tried and imprisoned for  
> voter fraud.  Voting machine corporations controlled by CEOs who have  
> made public statements to reelect the current regime "by any means  
> necessary"(Diebold) and State Officers with election responsibility  
> prominently placed in party reelection organizations(Florida, Ohio,  
> and probably many others).
> 
> Just a few of the documented cases. Lots of reasons for voter anger.
> 
> 
> 
> Winsor
> Long Beach, California, USA
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On / August 25, 2007 CE, at 3:01 PM, Andrew Fildes wrote:
> 
>> It was my understanding that one of the reasons for poor turn-out was
>> the scarcity of election booths and the fact that voting was on a
>> work day. I may have been misinformed (about the geography, that is!)
>> The 'angry people' was a reference to the voters - you know that
>> they're seething inside. :)
> 
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