A verifiable-voting insurgency

This is a commentary in Roanoke VA’s newspaper by poet Colleen Redman, whose poem My President Bush Dream appeared here on FmH last month.

“Just as the U.S. invasion of Iraq seemed over with the fall of Baghdad, so did the 2004 presidential election seem to end when John Kerry conceded. But the war was hardly over when Bush prematurely claimed victory, and the election isn’t over, either.

In fact, a new Harris Poll indicates that one in five Americans doesn’t believe the election was legitimate. The number of skeptics would probably be higher if more people were aware of the scope of voting irregularities that occurred. Unfortunately, the corporate-owned media have mostly fallen in line with the ‘powers that be,’ just as they did in the run-up to the war (something a few major newspapers later apologized for).” [more]