Articles on the 2004 US Presdiential Elections and the Growing Crisis

Below are articles from The US Marxist-leninist Organization and The 
Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) on the present situation 
erupting in the Republic of the so-called united States.

http://www.usmlo.org/archive2004/2004-10/vor041027.htm#1

The Fraud of a System that Brings Parties to Power and Divides the People

Every day there is yet a new scandal about the counting of votes in the 
coming election. Voter registration fights, provisional ballots, lack of a 
paper trail for computer machinery, are serving to focus attention on the 
individual voter. With numerous legal battles raging in many of the 
battleground states, all in the name of “protecting the voter,” the 
appearance is that the ruling circles are seriously concerned about every 
vote. Yet if one looks past appearances, one sees that the ruling circles 
are no longer able to sort out their conflicts and are bitterly fighting 
over power at every level while also trying desperately to convince the 
voters that yes indeed their votes do decide the outcome. But people’s 
repeated experience and the blatant fraud of 2000 showing votes do not 
decide the outcome, keeps getting in the way.

For example, this year the ruling circles are contending with people’s 
consciousness of the divisive role of the Electoral College, which acts to 
prevent a single national polity from even forming. The fact that voters 
recognize that literally tens of millions of votes in the majority of states 
already do not count because these voters do not live in the 17-20 
battleground states, is causing considerable trouble. So too is the fact 
that about half of all eligible voters will not vote, many because there is 
no candidate they are prepared to vote for.