Fitrakis and Friedman Represent
Remember two days ago when Congressman Dennis Kucinich read aloud 35 Articles of Impeachment against President George Bush and included two on election integrity - Article 28 [pdf], which accuses him of “tampering with free and fair elections,” and Article 29, [pdf] which charges him with “conspiracy to violate the Voting Rights Act of 1965? Well it turns out that Congressman Kucinich turned to two of the movement’s strongest independent investigative journalists, Bob Fitrakis of FreePress.net and Brad Friedman of Bradblog.com, for help in crafting those articles.
In an article posted today at FreePress.org, co-authors Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman, draw a direct line from “independent reportage on the stolen 2004 election that appeared first at www.freepress.org and in other non-corporate and internet-based media” and on the ground efforts in Ohio by “grassroots election protection activists before, during and after the 2004 voting,” to the facts presented in Uncounted, and then to the articles ready by Kucinich two days ago.
Ironically, as Fitrakis and Wasserman point out, even though “these facts have finally penetrated to a proposed Congressional indictment of the nation’s chief executive, they have yet to be reported in the ‘mainstream” corporate-owned media.’” Even more ironically, neither have the Impeachment Articles themselves.
Fitrakis and Wasserman also send up a red flare and warn that 28 & 29 should “serve as a cautionary notice to the Obama campaign that this year’s election could also be stolen.” Word on the street is that the Obama campaign is already on it - pushing voter registration and get out the voter initiatives as a means to counteract the inability of our electoral system to be able to handle margins of victory so small and margins of error so big.
UPDATE: Also on the Huffington Post
June 11th, 2008 at 11:03 am
[…] Mary Mancini is here to tell you that if you are afraid that this Presidential election will be stolen, like the last one supposedly was, have no fear: Word on the street is that the Obama campaign is already on it - pushing voter registration and get out the voter initiatives as a means to counteract the inability of our electoral system to be able to handle margins of victory so small and margins of error so big. […]
June 11th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
Since the comments at Post Politics appear to be broken, I’ll comment here for the time being.
What…you trying to pick a fight with that title? (“Because It Didn’t Go Their Way It Must Have Been Stolen”)The integrity of elections should be an issue of concern for all - regardless of party affiliation. If the Democratic party were pushing mechanism of disenfranchisement - and let’s face it, they have in the past - we’d be just as upset.
Don’t you want to win fairly?