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November
2004
Feature
7
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HI
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Faces
of
the
Fallen:
a
tribute
to
the
1125
U.S.
fatalities
in
Iraq
so
far.
And
that
s
why
the
next
time
some
guy
who
lives
in
a
cave
asks
you
who
won
the
election,
you
can
tell
him
Kerry
did,
if
every
vote
were
to
be
counted.
As
freelance
journalist
Greg
Palast
asserts,
voter
spoilage
in
Ohio
Mexico
resulted
in
Kerry's
loss
of
these
states,
and
subse-ently,
tdNew
the
presidency.
What's
voter
spoilage,
you
ask?
The
clearest
itance
of
voter
spoilage
is
the
hanging
chad.
Hanging
chads
occur
en
punch-card
ballots
(which
are
used
in
both
Ohio
and
New
Mexico,
gardless
of
their
faulty
results)
have
not
been
punched
through
entire
ly.
Election
officials
look
at
these
ballots
and,
seeing
that
they've
been
completed
unsatisfactorily,
throw
them
out.
In
the
2000
election,
Florida
saw
179,855
ballots
thrown
into
the
garbage
bin
on
the
order
of
Florida
Secretary
of
State
Katherine
Harris.
A
US
Civil
Rights
Commission
report
found
that
54
percent
of
these
ballots
were
cast
by
blacks,
who
again,
vote
overwhelmingly
Democratic.
Speculation
on
the
part
of
international
observers
has
suggested
that
this
is
also
what
happened
in
Ohio
and
New
Mexico
in
this
election.
Additionally,
somewhere
between
175,000
and
250,000
provisional
lots
were
also
issued
in
Ohio.
Provisional
ballots
are
issued
to
vot-
whose
identity
is
even
slightly
at
risk
of
being
false.
This
is
called
a
allenge.'
The
technique
of
'challenging'
black
voters
is
an
old
Ku
Klux
allowing
members
of
a
party,
in
this
case
the
GOP,
to
block
Iintectic,
lers
of
black
descent
at
the
polls.
Instead,
these
would-be
voters
are
'en
provisional
ballots
which,
as
in
the
case
of
Ohio,
may
never
be
unted
at
all.
Democracy
in
action.
And
that's
why
the
next
time
some
guy
who
lives
in
a
cave
asks
you
Biowon
the
election,
you
can
tell
him.
Kerry
"did,
if
every
vote
were
to
be
unted.
But
as
we
know
bv
now.
that
iust
ain't
the
case.
(That
said,
what
now?
Why
shouldn't
every
American
promptly
jump
a
onager
As
every
single
liberal
in
the
world
was
quick
to
point
out
fctweek,
at
least
Bush
can't
run
again
in
2008.
Unfortunately,
that
n't
stop
Dick
Cheney
from
running
himself.
So
what
are
some
positive
aspects
of
this
election
that
we
can
cling
to
in
our
conservative-fearing
dreams?
Here
are
some
now,
courtesy
of
our
friend,
'disingenuous
film-maker'
Michael
Moore:
Bush's
victory
was
the
narrowest
win
for
a
sitting
president
since
Wilson
in
1916
A
majority
of
Americans
still
think
that
the
US
is
going
in
the
wrong
direction
(56),
disagree
with
the
war
(51)
and
disapprove
of
Bush's
leadership
(52)
The
Republicans
still
don't
have
a
60
seat
filibuster-proof
majority
in
the
senate,
thank'God
5
more
African
Americans
were
elected
to
Congress!
Woo!
Over
55
million
Americans
voted
for
a
guy
that
CNN
called
the
"1
most
liberal
Democrat
in
the
US."
Holy
crap!
That's
more
than
Clinton,
Reagan,
Bush
Sr.
or
Gore!!
This
shows
a
HUGE
step
in
the
right
direction.
So
in
the
big
picture,
we're
doing
alright,
we've
just
gotta
keep
our
chins
up
and
remember
to
VOTE
every
chance
we
get!
And
don't
forget:
hey,
we
live
in
Canada
yo!
Have
a
brew,
grab
your
bong,
and
get
ready
for
a
hell
of
a
show,
because
it's
gonna
be
an
explosive
4
years!
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