The last third of this panel was an exercise in transpartisan bonding. Hertzberg tried to get Norquist and Keating to agree to a popular election for president. No agreement was reached on disbanding the Electoral College, thus allowing the United States to join the rest of the industrialized world as a true democracy.
Topics not mentioned during the transpartisan fest include:
- Dan Rather's expose of massive problems with electronic voting in 2000, Florida;
- 56 of 88 counties destroying all or some of their 2004 election ballots in defiance of a court order to produce them for the first federal trial on real election fraud in 2004, Ohio (which just might lead one to think that they had something to hide);
- millions of votes thrown out every presidential cycle, mostly minority votes;
- millions of poor, mostly minority, citizens denied the right to vote after they've paid their debt to society – felon disenfranchisement; and
- two stolen presidential elections leading to our current troubles and the victims; dead, maimed by torture, and injured for life by an illegal war..
The moderators accepted questions from the audience on three by five cards. I couldn't resist. I went for a Zen agitprop moment. My question:
Felon disenfranchisement, voter ID laws, and other methods to shrink the voting rolls are a direct descendant from the racist Mississippi Constitution of 1890. When will politicians who advocate this stand up and claim their heritage?
I wasn't being very transpartisan and probably deserved to be ignored, which I was; outvoted, so to speak by the reuniters. Why? Because, there is no good or bad, no crimes, just people who need to sit down together and follow the axiom: "It's nice to be nice, I like everybody."
I wondered how Reunite America will help those responsible for Iraq plus the evisceration of the Constitution get along with those who object to the nightmares inflicted on the country – all courtesy of two stolen presidential elections. But there I go again.
The conference is clearly worth attending given the cross section of voting rights groups and the sessions offer a cross section of many important voting rights issues. I suspect that the reuniting is done for the time being.
ENDS
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