This is the sort of thing that may well drive me out of politics someday. In 2000, the media didn’t have much choice but to cover the fucked up election. Of course, they covered it in such a way as to make it look like it was only Florida that widespread voting irregularites. They also did a good job of making it all a funny ha-ha joke. In Ohio, the margin was large enough that they weren’t forced to cover it. In fact, it really seemed as if the media were in on the “it looks like democracy. close enough. move on” cover up. There’s been damn little reporting in the TV news media about the very well founded allegations coming from Black Box Voting and others. There’s been almost no coverage of the cozy relationship between the people making these machines and the GOP.
It used to be only on my worst days that I feared that I’d never see an honest election in this country again. I wouldn’t go so far as to say that I”m convinced of it, but I often feel like it would take a democratic landslide to actually get our candidate elected.
