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Sunday, May 15, 2005

Voter Fraud in Ohio

Inspired by Michael Cavlan, candidate for U.S. Senate, who improvised a version of this last week at "Karaoke with the Candidates", co-hosted by Minneapolis mayor candidate Farheen Hakeem. Sung to the tune of "Four Dead in Ohio" by Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young:

Tabulators and Bush is coming
We’re shouting here on our own
This autumn I hear the drumming
Voter fraud in Ohio

Gotta get down to it
Hackers are counting us out
Stood in this line long ago
What if you knew where the
Paper ballots were put?
How can you sleep when you know?

Voter fraud in Ohio
Stolen democracy in Ohio

Thanks also to Sheryl Zettner and John Munter for heightening my awareness of this issue. Dedicated to the victims who inspired the original song, who were exercising their right to free speech 35 years ago in opposition to the Vietnam War.

7 Comments:

At Sun May 15, 11:31:00 AM CDT, Blogger Tom Cleland said...

This site has a video documenting the long lines in Ohio:
http://onegoodmove.org/1gm/1gmarchive/001812.html#comment6124.

 
At Sun May 15, 05:54:00 PM CDT, Blogger Sheryl said...

Did you write this, Tom? Great to see your creative juices flowing. :) Especially on such an important topic.

Looking forward to the chess.

 
At Sun May 15, 06:14:00 PM CDT, Blogger Tom Cleland said...

I'm not sure how much of it I ripped off from Mike. Only heard him sing it once!

 
At Mon May 16, 03:01:00 AM CDT, Blogger Sheryl said...

I won't tell! ;)

 
At Sat May 21, 09:34:00 PM CDT, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Tom and all.

LOLOL thanks, this was great. Sherrie, I can assure you that Tom greatly improved on the original Cavlan version. Oh and his voice is better than mine..

I will have to visit this site in the future. When I have a little spare time..lolol

 
At Sun May 22, 08:26:00 AM CDT, Blogger Tom Cleland said...

Thanks!

 
At Mon May 23, 05:08:00 AM CDT, Blogger Sheryl said...

Maybe I'll get to hear him sing live some day. Although I'd wanna interrupt and force a duet or something---hahahaha.

 

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