WAS PROP 8 ACTUALLY DEFEATED??
Well, well, well. First we find out, happily, that We the People may not be so fiercely
racist after all, as Election ‘08 has debunked the (feeble) theory of “the Bradley effect.”
And now it turns out that Americans–at least those in gay-friendly California–
may not really be as hostile to gay marriage as the outcome of that state’s election
has apparently suggested.
As we think about the possibility that Prop 8 was not really passed by California’s
voters, let’s note something that the press, and others, won’t discuss: i.e., that the
entire apparatus of computerized voting in this country–the e-voting machines
and op-scans and central tabulators, etc.–is largely owned by members of the
Christianist far right.
Diebold and ES&S were both begun by Bob and Todd Urosevich, two ardent
Oklahoma theocrats, while Triad, which makes the central vote tabulators used
in Ohio in 2004, is owned by the Rapp family. SmartTech, the company that
helped Bush/Cheney steal that state, is owned by evangelical Jeff Averbeck;
and his associate Mike Connell, owner of GovTech Solutions, which also helped
to steal Ohio, among other races, was motivated to such work by his desire “to
save the babies,” according to Stephen Spoonamore.
Why are there so many Christianists among the owners of those companies?
Because the rigging of elections is the only way that that fringe movement ever
could impose its theocratic program on the rest of us. As Paul Weyrich used to
say out loud, the Christianists despise democracy. After all, that system, if allowed
to stand, would put the sinful secular majority in charge–and that can’t be
allowed.
And so, whether or not it turns out that Prop 8 was rigged to pass, we need to take
a good hard look at those machines, and at the companies that own them–and
keep them out of our elections.
Meanwhile, let’s all stop assuming that last week’s outcome was legitimate, and
look closely at the evidence around Prop 8.
MCM
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