A Guardian story on the Conyers stolen election hearings, focusing on Jesse Jackson.
Jackson considers this a civil rights issue, as important to deal with as Selma and voting rights for blacks in the 60s. In this he is not alone. Members of the Congressional Black Caucus were virtually alone in protesting the Florida swindle in 2000 on the floor of Congress. Minority precincts were targeted for abuses in Ohio, and so this is becoming the central political issue for African Americans, while the press and everyone else dozes.


Guardian Unlimited US elections 2004 Jesse Jackson: In Cleveland as in Kiev