Spindecision 2005

With respect to an article published in the Pittsburgh Tribune http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/opinion/columnists/vassilaros/s_360812.html and brough to our attention by PoliticsPhilly.com http://www.politicsphilly.com/node/237
Many seem to be more interested in the Spin than the actual story of voter fraud in Philadelphia, from Will Bunch, to Dimitri Vassilaros, to countless bloggers and meetup groups. The group acvr includes many Republicans but also contains some Democrats. Maybe they are not nonpartisan, but they sure are bipartisan. While some facts a slanted along partisan lines, some cannot be disputed. According to the report and common knowledge, there were fraudulent registrations in Philly, the Polling Places are a poor excuse for Democracy, and the voter rolls were not adequately purged. Nevertheless, what wasnt mentioned in the article and should have been was how even more fraud would have been reported had pollwatchers received their watchers certificates to grant them access to the polling places. Bob Lee recently issued a retort to the report in the comments section of a blog, guess he didnt want to go on air or in print media with this so to give it more coverage. He stated many things in his retort, http://blogs.philly.com/blinq/2005/08/election_cheese.html#more
but he conveniently left out the lack of watcher certificates received by these Republican operatives. Had each person legally received their certificate, more concrete evidence of fraud would have been reported. However it wasnt. Check the facts! Forget the group that issued the report, stop making execuses for fraudulent government, clean up elections in this City.