I wish everyone in the USA would read this article. Greg Palast reveals (again) the sordid truth about our election process:
This is a fact: On November 2, 2004, in the State of Ohio, 239,127 votes for President of the United States were dumped, rejected, blocked, lost and left to rot uncounted.And not just anyone's vote. Dive into the electoral dumpster and these "spoiled" votes have a very dark color indeed.
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Any guesses as to whom those African-Americans chose for president on those junked ballots? Check Ohio's racial demographics, do the numbers, and there it is: Kerry won Ohio. And that, too, is a fact. A fact that could not get reported in the USA. But the shoplifting of those votes in Ohio was just the tip of the theft-berg. November 2, 2004 was a national ballot-box bonfire. In total, over three million votes (3,600,380 to be exact) were cast -- marked, punched, pulled -- YET NEVER COUNTED. I'm not talking about the Ukraine or Uganda. I'm talking about the United States of America "with liberty and justice for all."
Read it all. It's very painful but necessary. Our elections have been spoiled. Votes drift away, losers become winners...
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