Today we will find out if at least one Senator will join several Representatives in calling for debate about the 2004 "election" and the many problems and deficiencies of the vote in Ohio, Florida and at least several other states.
Or perhaps we will have a replay of 4 years ago when multiple African American Congressional Representatives stood to speak about the disenfranchisement of their fellow citizens and were told, effectively, to sit down and shut up if there wasn't a Senator willing to join them in calling the deeply flawed Presidential vote into question.
Regardless of your political bent, you should be concerned about having an electoral process that counts all votes, provides every citizen eligible to vote the opportunity to do so, and is fair and transparent.
If you only care about winning at any cost, well, that says as much about the validity of your political philosophy as it does about you.
Here is a bit from an article that can be found at:
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010605B.shtml
www.freepress.org
The human side of how Bush stole Ohio, and why Congress must investigate rather than ratify the Electoral College.
[On] Thursday, January 6 Congress will host an unprecedented Constitutional showdown over the future of American democracy.
It rises from a catalog of abuses that poisoned the November 2 presidential balloting in Ohio. Taken together, these attacks on the democratic process shifted Ohio's vote from John Kerry to George W. Bush, giving him the presidency.
Other states, most notably New Mexico and Florida, suffered similar problems, casting a dark shadow of doubt over the alleged 3.5 million-vote nationwide edge claimed by Bush.
By virtue of an 1887 law passed in response to the contested election of 1876, Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), Rep. Stephanie Tubbs-Jones (D-OH) and others will challenge the seating of Ohio's electors. If joined by a single Senator, Congress for the first time will debate the outcome of a presidential election as determined by the Electoral College.
...[A]ll Americans committed to real democracy must stand in awe of this challenge.
It's more than ironic that this unelected administration has portrayed itself as a defender of democracy in helping overturn an election in Ukraine based on discrepancies between exit polls and a fraudulent vote count. Doing the same here would deny George W. Bush the White House.
It's also ironic that an apparently defeated Republican candidate for governor in the state of Washington is now calling for a revote to overturn a recount. We support that demand, and ask the same for Ohio.
It's beyond tragic that this administration is now shedding untold quantities of blood in Iraq in the name of a democracy that is being denied here.
full story at:
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010605B.shtml