As the day grows nearer I can't shake this sick feeling in my stomach. They're going to steal this one too. There is no doubt. I thought democracy had a chance when I was under the assumption that a mere 51 % of all votes were cast on e-voting machines but when I found out that 90% of all votes cast are counted by e-voting machines . . .the air went out of my sails.
Even though it seemed an insurmountable task I truly held out a sliver of hope when I realized that this election is bringing out huge numbers to the polls. Could it be possible that democracy will actually take place? The answer is an unequivocal "No." What we have today and have had since the 2000 election is in essence a poll tax. You may remember the poll tax from the old days in the south when white men couldn't lynch enough blacks to suppress their votes they devised a thing called the poll tax. This made it very difficult for all but the very successful blacks from voting. Back then you could count the number of wealthy blacks living in the south on one hand. Poor black folk couldn't afford to pay, white folks could so . . .(you see how this worked.) Eventually it was found to be unconstitutional and the Southern white man had to come up with a new scheme.

The new voter suppression scheme that has been in effect since 2000 is the lack of places to vote and the limited availability of voting machines and or ballots. This method has been extremely prevalent this election. While white upper middle class suburbia is simply a wash with polling places and voting machines (even if they are those damn e-machines) the inner city and less affluent areas (poor black folk) find themselves waiting in 3 to 5 hour lines at the far too scarce polling places with one or two working machines. Working people can not afford to take a day off to vote, wealthy people could take a week off if necessary. This is the 21st century's version of the poll tax.

Add to this the media's involvement with setting up the populace for the inevitable McCain win. The head lines over the week end and today have turned into McCain campaign advertisments. Calling him the "Under Dog" and reminding the readers how he could pull off the upset. Rather than focusing on all the voter suppression techniques being utilized this election, the corporate media is determined to make a stolen election seem legit. They are laying the ground work for the American voter to accept that McCain won fair and square.

There's not enough Maalox in the world to settle my stomach. The points I bring up are not some in depth, behind the scenes, in the dark recesses of some shadow government's back room. these things are out in the open. It's right under our very noses and it stinks!

DaG Out and very depressed