Who is No One?

On Friday's PBS Conventional Wisdom Show, otherwise known as Washington Week in Review, an establishment reporter mentioned the pending Ohio vote recount "which no one wants."

Who is this no one? Not voters, apparently, who are behind these efforts. Here's one of the few press reports on recent events:
Skepticism spawns broad effort to push voting reform

If the electronic voting machines in East Timor or Bangladesh were all owned and their codes controlled by announced political partisans of one candidate, and most of the deviations from exit polls favored that candidate, and nearly all the other "irregularities" potentially did as well, what would they be saying on Washington Week?

But maybe that is the Beltway view. No one must mean the Democratic Party--sure it's officially leaderless, with the DNC chair gone, the Senate leader gone--but somebody is going to have to step up to the plate. John Kerry issued a strong statement, and one hopes things are going on behind the scenes, but again, it's going to have to go public soon. Where's move on. org? After this week or next week it may be too late.


As somebody on a blog discussing this noted, the outcome of 2000 was accepted in the belief that in 4 years the system would be reformed so every vote counts, and no non-votes do. It didn't happen. So it's crucial to turn up the heat now, not only for this election, but for any that might mean something in the future, if any.