Obama’s won–but our elections are a scandal

Posted by mcm

November 18, 2008

While GOP Smears Franken Vote, Will Obama Help Repair Election System?
Art Levine
Posted November 17, 2008 | 09:56 PM (EST)

The never-ending Republican War on Voting continues apace, with the GOP launching new smears against Democrats and Senate candidate Al Franken for alleged voter fraud in the razor-thin race against incumbent Norm Coleman. The latest bogus rumor supported by the right-wing noise machine is the claim that missing ballots were being kept in a car by a Minnesota elections official. The real fraud, of course, involves the efforts to suppress minority and low-income voters and challenge election results by claiming widespread Democratic voter fraud.

Three Senate races — including those in Minnesota and Alaska with still-uncounted votes — could help determine if the Democrats achieve a 60-vote, filibuster-proof majority.

At the same time, a media myth is growing that the election went smoothly with only some minor hiccups, and, among progressives, that all those long lines were just a welcome sign of a healthy democracy.

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The Longest Line

On Election Day, 2004, election fraud was epidemic in Ohio (and throughout the nation). Would-be Democratic voters were impeded or disabled by the thousands, especially (though not only) in the inner cities and in college towns.

Bush/Cheney's drive to block the vote was particularly flagrant in Gambier, Ohio, home of Kenyon College. While student voters at nearby religious schools had quite an easy time of it, Kenyon's students had to wait for hours and hours and hours. Those long lines sooned turned out to have been purposely created, through the deliberate under-supply of working e-voting machinery to the polling sites at Kenyon. (The same thing happened all throughout the state and nationwide.)

After the election, Kenyon students wrote up an account of what they went through on that day and very late into the night. It's called The Longest Line. As it did not receive its due attention--and as we're heading toward another presidential race--I offer it to you for download here.

MCM