We know they left the back door open.
We know they switched the fool's votes for the prince's.
We know that while they were stealing the election, there was a black circus going on in Ohio. People were herded form pillar to post, their names taken down and then forgotten, their ballots put aside in baskets instead of the counter boxes and the front doors locked because the poll workers wanted to go home.
We know that's what happened and we know who did some of it, but not all. The Associated Press, by linking their phone lines to the central tabulators, opened the back door to the thieves. They probably didn't do it on purpose, but the thieves surely knew to take advantage of it.
What we don't know is the identity of the thieves, but we can be pretty sure it wasn't Democrats because in every instance where votes were shifted, they ended up on the Republican's side.
We do know the ringleader of the circus in Ohio. He's an ambitious man who wants to be governor and he's a Republican. So why, you might ask, would he do such a thing? Why would he orchestrate a diversionary circus so the votes could be shifted?
Does he think the fool he backed is going to reward him? Not likely. No, he did it because he's a Republican, a proponent of representative government, who doesn't really believe that the ordinary folk he claims to represent are entitled to voice their opinion, much less have it count.
It's a point of view that Democrats simply don't understand. It's the same point of view that leads Republicans to suggest that if some of the "right" kind of people don't go to vote in Iraq, they'll just plug in a formula to make the numbers come out as they want.
So, perhaps there was no theft. At least not in this latest election. Maybe the principle of government "by the people" was lost some time ago, in the last century. And we're only just figuring it out--watching our "elected" representatives look the other way. And the fool rules because the people are not smart enough.
Posted by Hannah at January 6, 2005 06:54 AM