Huff Po's Melinda Henneberger Interviews Democrat Christine Jennings

[kster]

On Her Contested Florida Congressional Race...

WASHINGTON - It's not that Christine Jennings has given up on sliding into Katherine Harris's old seat in the new Congress: "I earned it, I deserve it, and I want to be seated.'' But, she says slowly, "I am not confident.''

And who would be, stuck in a Holiday Inn near the Capitol, where the Republican she ran against, Vern Buchanan, is busy locating the washroom and voting with her party to increase the minimum wage?

Jennings is here to remind her fellow Democrats that while Buchanan has been sworn in provisionally, she is still trying to get a court to order a new election in Florida's 13th Congressional District, based on widespread complaints that electronic voting machines there did not record thousands of votes cast in Sarasota County.

When I met her for lunch, she was coming from a morning of meetings and working the phones at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. "I was not too impressed with the Democrats' coffee,'' said her attorney, Kendall Coffey, who was on Al Gore's legal team in 2000. If she does get seated, Jennings promised, she'll try to turn these people on to some Maxwell House. But first, of course, she's got to take on paperless ballots.




http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/01/11/huff-pos-melinda-henneb_n_38405.html

[graywarrior]

1. You gotta hand it to her. She's a fighter, exactly what the people need.

[EFerrari]

2. K&R

[kster]

4. Thanks Sfexpat2000... nt

[EFerrari]

5. "Those people with the Sarasota Alliance for Fair Elections?

I used to pat them on the back at Democratic meetings, but I had no idea."

That's exactly how I felt on the day Junior stole Kerry's win. And for months before, trying to bug MoveOn and others "They're going to try to steal it -- what are we doing about that? They'll try to steal it, who do we have on the case?"

And, in response I got everything but a box of Reynold's from everybody.

Have an idea now.

Thank you for posting.

[Ellipsis]

3. K&R

[Stevepol]

6. Needs to be Rec'd highly. Don't let this issue be lost!!

We are in the middle of an exuberance brought on by the victories in 06 and now everybody is forgetting that our elections are still rigged. We still don't have a democracy. The 06 election was tilted by about 7-9% and we still won but when things tighten or in races like FL-13, where the machines are either incompetently or maliciously programmed or just malfunction, you have totally obvious examples of fraud and this has to be used as the lever to get free and fair elections. (See www.electiondefensealliance.org)

We can't let this issue die or diminish in importance.

When the vote is counted in secret (by trade secret, proprietary software) without verification (in absence of regular, robust, required audits), IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO HAVE A DEMOCRACY!

[Kurovski]

7. K&R.

:kick:

[bleever]

8. K&R.

Thanks!