I agree with dKos diarist, occam’s hatchet, who writes this:
This little election in Connecticut – with its retired folk manning the
polling places, its ballots not being counted by Diebold, its safely
Democratic Senate seat up for grabs, its New England common sense at
work – is about something the American people have been craving for six
long years, and that the world has been desperately in need of from
this country for just as long:
Accountability.
Heh. Democracy is on the march. In Connecticut. And it’s scaring the crap out of the Right.
The Right is holding its breath.
The whole world is watching.
Except thanks to Lieberman, the Right isn’t frightened at all. The establishment Democrats are frightened.
As for the world watching, I hope that if that is true, then whoever is watching notices that when America votes in an election that is unfettered by electronic voting machines and in which the minority vote is actually encouraged – in other words, a free and fair election – the good guys win.
Please, please, please work in your community for voter-verified paper ballots. It’s the only way to get our Democracy back. We can’t all vote in Connecticut in the fall.
If you live in PA: Coalition for Voting Integrity
If you live in New York: New Yorkers for Verified Voting
If you live elsewhere: Coalition for Visible Ballots, Verified Voting, Voters Unite, which has a list of local organizations here. It’s definitely not complete though because my Bucks County group, Coalition for Voting Integrity isn’t on it. But it’s a start.
cross-posted at dKos
AMEN!
The story broke about 04.20 London time and was a spash during the BBC News 24 half hour news. It was repeated in the headlines at 04.30 when they had a pre-recorded interview with IIRC the Lebanese ambassador to the USA. The story led the o5.00 News which is also broadcast by BBC World. It has contrinued to lead the headlines every quarter hour. The story is second lead on their world news page, the main being the attempts for a new draft UN resolution on Lebanon.
Meanwhile we can all join in
That’s good news.
That’s good news.
There was no long lull in the reporting of the vote count as there was in OH-2, TX Primary, and CA-50.
And no surprise result.
Not only was it free and fair, it was transparently free and fair. I hope the general election operates the same way. After all, there will be Republicans involved in it.