Calm Down Already! Forget the faux crises. Get ready for the real one.

November 04, 2006 by lynnell

by Lynnell Mickelsen

I got a few calls over the weekend from nervous Dem friends, who wondered if a) Kerry's badly told joke; b) Mike Hatch "losing it" and calling a reporter a Republican hack/whore; c) Judi Dutcher not knowing what E85 was in the MN lieutenant governor debate meant that Dems were doomed, doomed, doomed yet again.

"Why do our own candidates always screw us?" moaned one pal.

Oh puhleeze. Stop the hand-wringing. This is not about Democratic candidates being fatally flawed and somehow, strangely, always "losing" it for the home team. This is about the Republican Noise Machine which will use anything to whip up a faux crisis.

It really doesn't matter what our candidates do, it's the same old routine. Howard Dean supposedly screamed and destroyed his campaign. John Kerry faked his war wounds and didn't deserve a medal. Colleen Rowley had a campaign volunteer who once posted something on a website.,'..and on and on. And it's all done with the complicity and willing assistance of yes, Republican media whores. Which is why I'm fine with Mike Hatch calling 'em out on it.

Back to the faux crises: I tell my friends the old union slogan. Don't agonize. Organize. Work on getting out the vote. Or send e-mails to your friends telling them who you're going to vote for and why----have fun and tell the truth. Because trust me, an e-mail from a friend saying what he or she values will have far more power than another TV ad or brochure in the mail. We should never underestimate our small, albeit powerful sphere of influence.

So turn off the GOP noise machine. Keep your eyes on the prize. And gird yourselves for what may be the real crisis. Last night I went and saw Stealing America: Vote by Vote , a new feature-length documentary by Emmy-winning filmmaker Dorothy Fadiman. The film documents significant irregularities in the Presidential election of 2004, weaving together behind-the-scenes experiences of poll workers, computer security experts, journalists, politicians, activists and voters of all ages.

After the film, the director, Dorothy Fadiman, and one of the computer security specialists in the film, took questions from the audience. The computer expert, a white-haired guy in his 50s who does computer security for big financial firms, says big voter fraud is not done entirely on individual machines. Instead, it's mostly done with the central tabulating computer and master disk---and it only takes one person with access.

I don't know what was scarier---the actual material in the film, which, if true, says that we've already lost significant control of our destiny and we're going to have to fight like hell to get it back. Or the fact that I was sitting near all these middle-age, Midwestern, total-establishment-type League of Women's Voters members who have done their own research and honestly believe there's been massive vote fraud in this country and possibly in Minnesota too.

They worry that 2006 could be yet another sequel to 2000 and 2004, i.e. the exit polls will show Dems are in the lead by three to six percentage points (or more), but on the night of the election, well, looky here, wonder of wonders, the Repubs have flipped those percentage right around.

Because we've seen this movie before. The media whores will tell us that the GOP had a fantastic GOTV effort, Karl Rove is a visionary genius who never doubted Republicans would keep control of Congress and John Kerry's botched joke doomed, doomed, doomed Democrats yet again.

None of it will be true, but hey, the GOP are the ones who "create their own reality" and own the two largest voter computer companies to boot.

So then the question will be'.what do we do about it?

In the short run, I think Dems should refuse to concede any suspicious elections and pay no attention to the Republican Noise Machine which will call them crazy, paranoid, sore losers, nyeh, nyeh, nyeh, nyeh, nyeh, nyeh. Etc. We need to get extremely serious about stolen elections. Demand audits. File lawsuits. Lead public protests. Stand resolute.

In the long run, however, the solution to voter integrity is actually fairly simple. Be. Like. Canada. Our neighbors to the north use paper ballots and count them by hand. Compared to us, their election record is as pure as driven snow.

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