Good Evening Garlic Fans
Unless you’ve been dangerously obsessed with ‘Dancing With The Stars’, you’re likely well aware that the 2006 Midterm Elections are taking place this coming Tuesday (Nov. 7th).
Equally, you’ve likely seen the stories about the questions of the new electronic voting machines (or caught the HBO Documentary, ”Hacking Democracy”), you know about the questionable (and at times, out-and-out dirty tricks; Yes, were talking about you, Florida and Ohio) practices of past elections.
Katrina vanden Heuvel, Editor & Publisher of The Nation has a wonderfully editorial that you should take a read on.
Here’s a teaser on it;
The American people are waking up and realizing that for all the Bush Administration's talk of promoting democracy abroad, the US electoral system fails to do the same at home. With the approach of the midterm elections, there is justified alarm about the vulnerabilities of electronic voting machines but this is just one of myriad problems, many of them long-standing, that cry out for reform.
So, in the spirit of democracy promotion at home, in the new issue of The Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel offers ten ideas for how to repair and strengthen our broken voting system. Read and circulate them widely.
The Garlic is doing its’ part in circulating them. Take a few minutes to read, and then forward to your friends.
The Nation’s “Bring Democracy Home”
Oh yeah, be sure to vote on Tuesday. If we want to make a change, we need every vote possible.
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