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    • 31 Jul 05
    • 6:03 pm

    As long as they are counting the votes, how do we ever know if we've won or lost?

    Posted to Democratic Dos and Donts
    • 02 Aug 05
    • 6:22 pm

    Lefty (writing about not being able to accurately count votes these days): >The privatization of the vote was the last nail in the coffin as far as I'm concerned. Yup. (And Lefty spoke to Jon, too): >Further, the struggle to take back democracy ...[requires] the re-education of >Americans. Our corporatocracy is a scary thing. Americans are naturally a bit sarcastic and disparaging of public programs. Don't know why that is, but we think it's common wisdom that no public programs can succeed, even though many have (we seem to need to kill them, so we can say they failed -- take …

    Posted to Democratic Dos and Donts