Investigate the Vote

Here's today's link to a blog, which uses the same template as this one so don't be freaked out, that explains the significance of the latest move by the Kerry-Edwards campaign to support court fights to challenge and investigate the vote in Ohio. He does a nice job of putting it all in context, suggesting that while the votes involved are enough to turn the election to Kerry, it's likely that the investigation will extend far beyond the upcoming official awarding of the election to Bush, and become Bush's Watergate. (Unfortunately, that would leave us with Cheney instead of Kerry, if the analogy holds.)

Election Scam-o-rama

There are other intriguing events unfolding in Ohio, including the attempt of the secretary of state in charge of the election there to avoid answering any questions about it, under oath or otherwise.

So what needs to happen next? There's the possibility of something breaking before Congress convenes to validate the results in a few weeks, resulting in some high drama on Capitol Hill. But in the long run, while the Kerry people stay low-key and the major news media do likewise, what's needed is (1) some youthful rabble-rousing, some twentysomething leaders to emerge at the head of vast numbers of demonstrators, to give the media something to take pictures of, and (2) some hungry young journalists eager to make their names by exposing election fraud and corruption in the dark heart of Bushness.