New Info proves that Central Tabulating Computers have modems connected and are open to manipulation. ie- all this stuff about vote challengers is just a diversion, because one person can change the state total from their home computer. Take the day off of work to help save our country. Yeah sure conspiracy nuts- they can’t steal it- wrong. We now have evidence that certainly looks like altering a computerized voting system during a real election, and it happened just six weeks ago.

Concerned citizens around the country need to get off their duffs and do something to save our country. Namely go down to their polling places and ask that the modems be disconnected. Take a zoom camera and take pictures for evidence.

It's Halloween evening, and Miami Beach is bustling with twenty-something party-goers and parents shepherding their costumed children through pastures of candy. The Democratic Party office on Lincoln Road, a glitzy pedestrian mall traversing the island, has its doors flung wide open, rainbow-colored Kerry/Edwards propaganda spilling out onto the sidewalk.

Downtown Miami, by contrast, was dead silent by the time I left the ACT office on Biscayne Blvd at dusk. Vacant lots, empty homes and office buildings, and new construction sites make for a dismal landscape of urban decay and impending gentrification. Developers are trying to extend the flashy atmosphere of Miami Beach to downtown, catering to upscale young professionals that might possibly want to live where they work. But for now, most everyone who can afford to lives away from downtown, and far from Overtown, the adjoining historically Black neighborhood.

My immersion into Miami life and politics has been swift. I arrived Saturday afternoon in Fort Lauderdale, and had my first political discussion on the shuttle ride to Miami with a Dominican driver and Colombian passenger who were both vehemently anti-Bush. Once I started speaking Spanish they both really opened up, telling me about the political divisions between Latinos in Miami, which doesn’t end with the renowned conservativism of the Cuban community. They agreed with me that Bush has pulled the wool over the eyes of the people in the US, and they wished me the best of luck in getting out the vote.

This weekend I’m traveling to Florida to help beat Bush on Tuesday, November 2nd. I’ll be volunteering with America Coming Together, one of a number of nation-wide organizations that has mobilized thousands of volunteers to convince undecided voters in critical swing states to vote against Bush.

Notice that I haven’t said I’m going to work on the Kerry campaign. I’m not a big fan of John Kerry, or the Democratic Party for that matter. I wanted to be in Boston in July to protest the Democratic National Convention, where war-mongering speeches drowned out the few voices of dissent allowed inside (the Mainers for Kucinich, for example), and a massive police presence squelched protests outside. I disagree with Kerry’s stance on the war in Iraq (he voted to give Bush the authority to wage war, and he now wants to “win� an unjust war), the so-called war on terrorism (he doesn’t address the root causes of terrorism, instead spouting violent rhetoric about “rooting out� and “destroying� the “enemy�), and military aid to Israel (he does not oppose the Apartheid Wall and ongoing oppression of Palestinians). I wish I could vote for a candidate I feel good about, and I firmly believe in the importance of breaking out of a two-party system controlled by corporate interests (yes, I voted for Nader in 2000). But this time around, there is too much to lose. Yes, I have joined the “anybody but Bush� campaign.

Miami Journal [ Why I'm going to Florida (10/30/04) I Touchdown (10/30/04) I One City, Many Worlds (10/31/04) I Mounting Frustration (11/1/04) I Why the long face? (11/3/04) ]

see related: Florida's Palm Beach County Bracing for the Electoral Storm

Please, let's not forget what happened in the Florida 2000 election.