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Farhad Manjoo can have his time to try and disprove any of the claims presented in Kennedy's piece. That's fine.
What's not ok, is Salon putting in a headline that is incorrect to the "proofs" that Mr Manjoo has presented.
The best that can be concluded from Manjoos article is "No one knows for sure whether or not Bush actually won Ohio" There's no smoking gun, but there sure are a lot of things that all seem to point in the same direction that Bush did not win the election legitimately.
Which all goes to the point of Kennedy's article. We can't have a democracy if the population can't believe the results. Election reform is necessary for our democracy to continue. Diebold should be banned from selling any more electronic equipment. Paper ballots / paper trails are not a luxury, they are a necessity for fair elections.
Kennedy's piece is a wake-up call to force our greased-palm politicians to actually install real reforms into our elections. Nothing less than we demand for third-world elections that we over-see is required for this United States democracy to continue.
It's time for Salon to stop using Mr Manjoo on this subject and use someone who can be objective.
