policy is the ringing of our latent obsessions. It is the sum total of our collective cultural worldview, and every grain of rice that we consume. He speaks from the heart of the nation, while standing on the point in striking the mirror of our society. This is the body of our free and democratic, with a courage and physical plate in front of the stage and the script across the country as a whole has been and all she has left the capacity to become. This is the story of the soul of the nation crystallized in the battle of the campaign. No candidate or the candidate has done more than reveal the true nature of life and culture of Barack Obama. However, the real mission of bringing transparency in government is just beginning now.
The scene took place in Washington DC It was the winter of 2000. While the vice president was busy somewhere, without doubt, that adorn the excavations at the site of new non-disclosure, the new president SAT comfortably in his limousine as he was constantly beaten with eggs (Moore 2003). All I could do was a flash version range Bubba Cheshire smile. This was the inauguration of Bush’s son, and it was the end of innocence in the U.S. Civic. Who does not remember the pervasive sense of frustration, the download has exceeded expectations and bureaucratic incompetence, the fact the disturbing feeling that the Republicans might actually win an election and then, slowly, knowing that hundreds of thousands voters of color have been disenfranchised in the blink of an eye? They were expelled from the voter list said, because the theory can not happen to be criminals in the future. It was like the movie Minority Report, Tom Cruse have been restated to us, to be represented in real time. Everything was so incredible. Who knows?
However, if the first choice of Bush was incredible, the second was definitely a charm. It is estimated that in 2004 the majority of voters over three million mostly black and brown have been deprived of their rights, simply through a combination of all those who have been released outside of the lists of voters county after county, New Mexico in Cleveland, Ohio, have been deprived of their rights or their votes and have simply not taken into account (Palast, 2004). During this year, said a lot of votes were “spoiled” No, because they ran into the midday sun, but because, for whatever reason, were simply thrown away. The vote was repression rampant in 2004, due to a plethora of Republican machinations, such as caging (Ibid). It is the insidious system where voters registered in the selected areas are sent by mail marked “NO WAITING” will return and then mail address is used to challenge the right of the voter to vote (Kennedy, 2008). Despite accusations cleverly conceived before the elections issued against “support group for Obama, democratic, liberal-leaning” ACORN, said to be involved in a sort of grand conspiracy to fix the vote in 2008, remember it Karl Rove et al were. who were the real experts on the abolition of voting in the last four national elections. Not to mention the fact that Bush won the 2004 elections, based solely on 119,000 votes counted by Diebold voting machines known Certified by Kenneth Blackwell, the Republican Party State President, who also became Secretary of State Ohio (Palast, 2004). EO C. Diebold, Walton Dell O ‘was not even shy to make his intentions clear: “I am committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to President …”, said (Harris, 2004). These facts are public record and can not be disputed. Curiously, as it was 153, 237 ballots were simply discarded, or “broken”, ie. In Iowa, an additional 36,811 votes were spoiled, and New Mexico reported that more than 600,000 votes have been counted, not even (Palast, 2004). Over the past eight years, Rove and company have made an art of removing voters.
Act Help America Vote Act passed by the Republican Congress in 2002 following the resounding clamor for free and fair elections, after the debacle of 2000, is the opposite effect. As strange as it may seem, some of the most diabolical of HAVA, which allow the purification of tens of thousands of voters roll call vote, convicted felons have been written by former MP Bob Ney (R-OH) and infamous Jack Abramoff, both of whom are currently incarcerated in a federal prison (Kennedy, 2008). Does the Republicans have successfully used this law to create a maze of confusion that ultimately disproportionately deprive millions of voters in the mostly black and brown. Not since the primaries white with Jim Crow was so much effort was spent trying to keep the citizens of the United States vote. If Barack Obama were serious about open government in Washington DC, there is no better place for him to start with this fundamental right in America. It must have been incredible in capitals around the world, nations which were condemned by the United States once their unjust choice but to see the images of millions of California voters in Connecticut in queue for hours, frustrated but determined to vote this year, simply because they wanted a change. Should not we be ashamed when we learned that the elections in East Timor and Nicaragua are actually running with more criteria than ours? Obama can make an immediate priority to appoint a commission that finally put an end to the shenanigans at the polls once and for all. It can ensure that we will send a receipt the next time we vote, and it can not ensure the transparency of the voting process. This would be the change you can believe in.
References
Harris Bev (2004) Black Box Voting: Vote alteration of the 21st century. Publishing Tailon. P. 81
Kennedy, Robert Jr., Greg Palast. (2008) Drinking the ACORN Kool-Aid: How cries of voter fraud cover the theft of the election, the Republican Party. Retrieved from:
Moore, Michael. (2004) Fahrenheit 911. Lions Gate Films
Palast, Greg (2006) Armed Madhouse: Who’s Afraid of Osama Wolf? Cranks and Kooks: Kerry won in ‘04Harris, Bev (2004) Black Box Voting: Vote alteration of the 21st century. Publishing Tailon. 189 193
