Informant38

In midterm US Congressional elections in which only 40% of those citizens eligible bothered to vote, a full 95% percent of House races and 75% of Senate races were won by the candidates who spent the most money. This while, under the guise of "poll watching," Republican Party functionaries were posted at polling stations across the country on Election Day, harassing (mainly Democratic) working class and minority voters. This while, right before the voting, a beloved Democratic Senator who was locked in a close election contest died in a mysterious plane crash, exactly two years after another Democratic Senate candidate died in the same mysterious way. This while the same inaccurate lists of supposedly ineligible (mainly Democratic) voters which unfairly disenfranchised tens of thousands in the 2000 presidential race, were inexplicably used again in this election. This while much of the country voted via computer systems whose proprietary nature does not permit public scrutiny, and which by definition do not leave much in the way of physical evidence for each vote. The computer glitch in South Florida which almost deleted 103,000 votes is a case in point