Voter rights champs
from Chris Owens:
This week, tune in to my conversation with Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) and in our regular segment on protecting your vote . . . Greg Palast, co-creator of “Steal Back Your Vote,” a comic book guide written with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (www.stealbackyourvote.com)
Palast is the author of the New York Times bestsellers "Armed Madhouse" and "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy" and is a Nation Institute/Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow for investigative reporting.
Waters and Palast and I will tackle some of this week’s nasty attacks on voters and voter advocates as well as tools you can use to make sure you vote is counted.
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- October 23, 2008
can't forget election reform even if Obama wins
Chris, while I'm not assuming an Obama win let alone a landslide (any Minnesota Democrat can shoot down complacency with two words --- "Paul Wellstone"), I am concerned election fraud will get dropped like it did after Democrats won in 2006, and convinced too many people it wasn't a real problem. I hope you'll use your show to help push an election reform agenda. One thing I'd like to know is why the disinformation campaigns, like telling people in Democratic precincts the wrong polling place, have been going on for years but no one gets caught and punished. It needs to be outlawed if it isn't, and laws enforced which it appears they aren't. I'm also concerned that this year's Florida, or Floridas, will get ignored if that state can't change the electoral college result. I predict Indiana will be this year's Florida, the reasons why being less important than my concern we'll ignore it if Obama wins. Even in a landslide, election fraud could cost congressional or legislative seats.
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By ericfOctober 24, 2008 - 12:29pm