Letters to the Editor
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Beyond the pale edges...
I truly appreciate the rigorous and thoroughgoing discussion featured of late on Salon's pages. For quite some time, I've thought that Mr. Manjoo was almost pathologically unable to accept that a variety of shenanigans could add up to a an election unfairly thrown to the man with the best network of operatives. I am less certain today that he truly believes things did not go awry, but give great respect to him for maintaining a high standard of proof. Even repeated and various examples of misconduct, frustration and inefficiency at the edges, though they could indeed be parts of a whole effort, finally mean nothing without conclusive documentary evidence.
That being said, the questions that Mr. Kennedy has kept alive are critical to the ongoing analysis of the 2004 elections - not because the result is at some point likely to be overturned, but because the light of day needs to be shined on those methods which could, (and probably have been, face it Farhad), used to subvert the results of free elections in our country. These discussions are primary to our democracy, since we need to develop the analytical tools to certify that our electoral process is everything that it should be: representative of the majority and untainted by shady gamesmanship.