I agree 100% with this guy’s request:
“If Howard Dean plans to run on his record in Vermont, he needs to share that record with the public,” Vermont Republican Chairman Jim Barnett (search) said. “The American people should not just have to take his word for it.”
And, I’m sure he will apply the same requirement to the sitting president.
bush speaks for once in his political career as an expert on the subject:
“I say it’s pure politics,” he said. “And that’s just the nature of democracy. Sometimes pure politics enters into the rhetoric.”
Computer-science researchers from Johns Hopkins University and Rice University are heaping criticism on electronic voting machines built by Diebold Election Systems, based on software code for the machine said to have been posted publicly to the Internet by an activist.
I’m feeling just peachy about the next national election…really, I am….
Good news from Florida:
Florida agreed to help restore voting rights to nearly 125,000 convicted felons who didn’t get enough advice on how to regain their rights when they walked free, officials said Thursday.
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Florida is one of eight states that deny ex-felons the right to vote unless they take steps to have their civil rights restored by the state.
The Department of Corrections had acknowledged that offenders released between 1992 and 2001 did not get proper help on having their rights restored.
The system drew international attention during the bitter dispute over the 2000 presidential election, when some Florida voters claimed they weren’t allowed to cast ballots because they were mistaken for convicted felons.
Since Florida appears to have a long history of abusing the civil rights of ex felons this will have to be closely monitored to assure that Florida officials do not find another way to continue their historic practices.
Of course, none of this has an impact on the 2000 election…..
Via Daily Legal News Wire.
There is growing grass roots support* for impeachment and some of the Democratic contenders are hinting at it:
On the stump in New Hampshire last week, Democratic presidential contender and former Senate Intelligence Committee chairman Bob Graham said that if George W. Bush made false statements that led the nation into war, there were grounds to impeach him.
James Ridgeway, in this Village Voice piece argues that it is unlikely that Bush will be impeached.