I just received the below email:

Dear Voter,
Roughly 2/3 of Americans cannot name a single Democratic presidential candidate.
The general election is, after all, more than 13 months away. But now is the
time many are starting to look for a Democratic candidate who is most strongly
opposed to the disastrous policies of George W. Bush. If that describes you
or someone you know, please pass along the following information:

Only one candidate for President voted against the misnamed "Patriot Act."

Only one candidate plans to introduce legislation in Congress to repeal the
"Patriot Act."

Only one candidate has declared without hesitation that he will vote against the
Bush request for $87 billion in additional funds to continue the quagmire in Iraq.

Only one candidate has submitted a bill to Congress that would establish genuinely
universal health coverage -- nonprofit national health insurance for all.

Only one candidate will withdraw from corporate trade deals like NAFTA and the
WTO, and replace them with fair trade agreements that include labor and
environmental protections.

Only one candidate has a plan to cut the bloated military budget by 15% ($60 billion
annually) and invest those funds in universal child care.

Only one candidate sued George Bush to stop him from going to war in Iraq without a
Congressional Declaration of War.

Only one candidate led opposition in Congress to the War in Iraq.

Only one candidate has a plan to repeal Bush's tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans
and invest that money in a plan for universal public education, age 3-college.

Only one candidate has pledged to break up corporate monopolies in agriculture, energy,
media and other sectors that are strangling farmers, the environment and the public.

Only one candidate has pledged to not only sign the Kyoto Treaty on global warming, but
to lead our country to 20% renewable energy by the year 2010.

Only one candidate risked his political career by standing up to banks and a private
utility company to save public electric power.

Only one candidate has spoken out against the takeover of our water supply by large
multinational corporations.

Only one candidate has sponsored legislation establishing a cabinet-level Department of
Peace to participate in policy discussions alongside representatives of the Departments
of State and Defense.

Only one candidate has a 98% lifetime pro-union voting record -- highest of all
candidates as ranked by the AFL-CIO.

Only one candidate is calling for "living wages," not just minimum wages.

Only one candidate has a plan to put Americans back to work with major investment
programs to rebuild schools, roads, bridges, ports, sewage, water and environmental
systems.

Only one candidate stands firmly against the privatization of Social Security and for
returning the Social Security retirement age to 65.

Only one candidate has introduced legislation to repeal the Federal death penalty.

Only one candidate has been endorsed by Willie Nelson, Ani DiFranco, Studs Terkel,
Ed Asner, Hector Elizondo, Barbara Ehrenreich, Arun Gandhi, Ben Cohen (of Ben and
Jerry's) and Granny D (who walked across the country for campaign reform at age 89).

One and only one candidate has taken the above positions.

It may not be who you think it is.

You may not have heard much about him.

His name is Dennis Kucinich, co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.

Find out what the corporate-dominated media aren't telling you: http://www.kucinich.us

To donate to Kucinich for President: https://www.kucinich.us/contribute.php

He is a radical. America is not quite ready for another radical. Bush* is one and people aren't happy. They aren't about to go from one extreme to another. I agree with Dennis in just about everything but would find it difficult to vote for him. His time will come. He is young enough.

I wouldn't "find it difficult to vote for him", as you stated. But I would find it difficult to belive that enough of a majority of the country would vote for him.
I would love to see DK in the White House, but I don't think 2004 is the year.

I send him money and Dean too Dennis has my heart and soul. Dean has my head. I want Dennis and what he speaks for to be the guiding philosophy of this country. I do fear for him as people like him who speak the TRUTH fearlessly almost always are assasinated when the people really start to follow them.

You know, the ones like these...
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Hundreds of computer scientists say electronic touchscreen voting machines could allow for massive election fraud. Already, malfunctioning software has caused confusion or possibly faulty vote tallies in races across the country. And a recent study out from Johns Hopkins researchers says that AccuVote machines are vulnerable to hackers, multiple votes and vote-switching.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0308/S00099.htm

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Professor Rubin's report called the Diebold system "far below even the most minimal security standards applicable in other contexts", and said that reliance on electronic voting systems such as Diebold's "places our very democracy at risk".
http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1059479771397

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What does this mean about the 2004 election?

* Americans will use voting computers with secret software that has not been sufficiently scrutinized, just as they have in past elections.
* They will have to trust computers to record and count their votes correctly – computers that are not advanced enough to ensure the security and accuracy that could justify their trust.
* If something odd occurs, manual recounts of the original ballots will be impossible, because the only record of the votes will be in electronic form, which will, of course, match the questionable tally.
http://www.verifiedvoting.org/index.asp