Robert F. Kennedy Jr. : Was the 2004 Election Stolen?

I would almost say that the original link seeder should take away the "Robert F. Kennedy Jr" part of the title because it isn't important and may lead some to think of it as just propaganda.
That being said, this is a wonderfully written article that shines a spotlight on many of the issues I've heard or read about but haven't put together. The sheer statistical data is staggering though. I don't know what the remedy is, but I have a feeling this Justice Department wants nothing to do with seeking out and prosecuting the effectuators of this disenfranchisement. I'm definitely reading Steven F. Freeman's book when it comes out.

Probably the most important news article of the past ten years. It reads - and is footnoted - rather like a legal brief, which is not surprising given RFKjr's background in law - but in a way that's the point. It's an indictment of not only the people who have violated our society's most sacred traditions but also of the cowardly media who no longer serve society. Read it or I'll shoot this puppy (old joke...).

Neither the press nor the Democrats should have had to investigate these issues. The Justice Department and the Congress should have investigated these irregularities. Unfortunately, it wasn't a priority for the GOP, the Whitehouse, the Congress, or the Courts. You think the Democrats should have protested more? Say too much, and you go to jail - for years - no attorney, no trial, just prison. Bush has admitted to; kidnapping, torture, wiretaps, data mining, indefinite imprisonment, preemptive war, and slaughter of the English language. He is to Democracy what Shock-and-Awe is to Negotiation.

Clean elections, publicly funded is the answer to corrupt polititans. We need to take back our elections from the corporations and special interests. Do something to get clean elections the law of the land, please!!!

It is amazing the number of issues that surround this Presidency. Voter fraud, 2 elections in a row. Unlawful use of Presidential powers, big oil favoritism, and on and on. I thought I lived in a Democracy, now I feel like I live in a Corpocracy, that is ruled by people totally devoid of rational humanistic behavior. The constant excuses that this is being done because it is god's will makes me sick. How dare they use god to push their own agenda forward, and worse yet, we are letting it happen.

I want a revolution. It is time to clean the whole damn system out.

I KNEW there'd be some idiot who'd say.."Get over it." in EVERY forum, every site, there's a guy who thinks this is about something other than the very fate of Democracy. THIS ISN'T A PARTISAN ISSUE. This is an issue that the foundations of what America is about are based on...free and fair elections . These people represent US. If they are cheating to get into power, do they STILL represent us? Does Democracy suffer?
That's what we are BTW...a Democracy. That's why Bush says we're in Iraq...to bring the beauty of Democracy to the Middle-East. If we can't get it right here, Republican or Democrat, then we are screwed. Because NEXT time you never know who might steal that election. If the machines can be hacked, then who's gonna hack them in the future?

ThePef: We have let it happen: twice. So, where do we go from here? How do
we get the legislation to stop this kind of thing through the Congress? Who is doing something? How
can I join? Somebody must know. Tell me, and I'll do it!

To me one of the problems is money.
You can't get voted into any office with out the backing of people with money and they all expect something for the backing. Why do you think the USA is trying to stabilize a OIL country (Iraq) instead of a poor African country.

Another problem is those that can initiate the changes are the ones affected by them so they won't make the change.

Case in point-Washington State voted term limits and instead of going to DC and trying to get the country to all have term limits (at that time the leader of the house was from Washington State) our wonderful Washington State elected officials sued the state on grounds that term limits was unconstitutional and won. Doesn't the President have term limits, how is it unconstitutional.

These same people have the best retirement plan ever, payed by tax payers, and they won't fix social security. Which by the way was screwed up by them.

As long as they control there own pocket books they aren't going to reform the system. Hence election reform WILL NOT Happen to make it fair. Only to make it easier to get themselves reelected.