Iran is in the news tonight about the Presidental election possibly being stolen by the incumbent over there. Most people here might be saying to themselves 'well it is the intolerant, dictatorial, backward, violent and terrorist-riddled Middle East,,,'
But such city, county, state and federal election corruption,outright buying votes, and other embarrassments are familiar to many American states and the Nation over the years. Florida and Ohio's part in 2 recent Presidential elections were shocking in there obvious dishonesty and disenfranchisement by delay and denial of being registered.
Blacks for decades put up with terrible injustice, even after they won their freedom after the bloodshed of the Civil War, and even after the Civil Rights Movement of the 60s and 70s.
Locally, the s.f. paper had an article about full ballot boxes floating in San Francisco Bay after a recent major election,,,but no one ,especially not the State of California's Attorney General , did anything about it. We americans are use to election abuse and outright , in broad daylight , multiple varieties of election fraud, even today, in the 21st Century.
This will be one of the causes of our national decline.
