[sixties-l] elections MFDP tapes and maybe general strike

From: PNFPNF@aol.com
Date: 11/11/00

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    Is one reminded more, by Bush's anxiety to stop the Florida recounts, of the 
    MFDP issue at the 1964 Dem. convention, or by Nixon's concern re those wee 
    tapes?
      This is indeed a moment for a new generation to catch on who runs the 
    electoral process/country.  
      As for the specific recounts issue, belief in progress seems relevant; 
    should progress toward universal suffrage in this country (from white male 
    property owners to white males generally [supposedly] to women and nonwhites 
    too, to...) not extendg to those who have trouble to read a (peculiarly) 
    confusing ballot--with recounts and even revoting becoming perhaps just 
    another part of the election process?
       It might also be good if, in case a candidate should try to concede or 
    prevent what are not his to concede--ie the rights not only of the Palm Beach 
    voters but of all of us to a fairly counted election--to have not only 
    crescendoes of protests but, say, a call for a general strike.
    Paula
    



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