Viewpoint: Electile Dysfunction & Unwanted Presidencies A report from We Count 2006 By Marc Baber, TruthInVoting.org Last May, a Zogby poll found that most Americans (excepting Fox News viewers) believe the 2004 election was stolen. If you've read Robert F Kennedy Jr.'s Rolling Stone article on the subject, you're probably convinced. If not, here's my own synopsis of 2004: The exit polls were not flawed. They were right. John Kerry won the presidential race by about five million votes, even after suppression of Democratic voters on a scale never seen before. Although we can conclude this with 99.99 percent certainty because of preliminary exit poll data, no one will be able to prove it, as was done in 2000, because there aren't paper ballots to recount in most of the critical states. [Read More]   Viewpoint: The Albatross Around City Hall BY JERRY DIETHELM Let's not mince words. So far our City Hall project has generated about as much community support as a pair of loose pants without a belt. No one I've talked to is ready to believe, proud and deserving as we all are, that Eugeneans will pungle up the $100 million or so it will take to build a new City Hall at any time soon. [Read More]
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