No candidate is trying to associate himself more with New Orleans than Mr. Edwards,who has used the city as a microcosm for larger issues of poverty,one of his core campaign themes."Katrina was one of the moments where the curtain is pulled away,"Mr. Edwards said,"and we can all see the problems of poverty and racial discrimination for what they are,and how far we have to go for equal rights and economic justice." |
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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...)