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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