Quote of the Day: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
" First of all we've got to get rid of these voting machines. These electronic voting machines that can be hacked. It happened in Ohio. Its happened all over the country and they are unreliable. And we've got to get rid of them. We've got to insist that our public officials get rid of them. we've got to, you know. This is a battle that is a the equivalent of the American revolution. We've gotta get the vote back and if we don't get the vote back, if we don't insure the intergrity of our voting system we are going to lose American democracy"--From the Politically Direct Podcast from June 4, 2006.
This quote came from my data set, so if it looks oddly puncutuated or sounds wacky and out of rhythm, that might be my fault or it might simply be a constraint of speech. There are things you can do in print that are awful hard to duplicate when speaking, like anything involving a semi-colon. But, that's another story for another day.
Even though its just a midterm election that is coming up, I thought it would be appropriate to get a little political. This may not be the most elegant way of putting it, but Mr. Kennedy was certainly speaking in earnest and I think he makes a very valid point. If we can't trust in the system with which we elect our public officials, then we can't trust the governing body as a whole. And without that trust, without faith in the ability to elect public officials and indeed without that ability at all (as in the instances where fraud has taken place) there is no democracy. In the last several years we've seen some astounding things in relation to the franchise and it has to stop.
