| When the definitive history of the dismantling of the system of justice during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries in the United States is written, the case of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman will deserve its own chapter. The dry recitation of events in the timeline above does not touch on the deceit inherent in how Siegelman came to be charged in the first place. For a good description of some of the underhandedness of the George W. Bush Justice Department under the influence of Karl Rove, the 60 Minutes piece from 2008 gives a good overview. |
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Joan Brunwasser is a co-founder of Citizens for Election Reform (CER) which since 2005 existed for the sole purpose of raising the public awareness of the critical need for election reform. Our goal: to restore fair, accurate, transparent, secure elections where votes are cast in private and counted in public. Because the problems with electronic (computerized) voting systems include a lack of (more...)