Monitoring Electoral OMITTED WORD 'AND' TYPO CORRECTED

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"Bhakti Ananda Goswami" <bhakti.eohn@v...>

Sun Nov 28, 2004 3:32 pm

Re: Monitoring Electoral OMITTED WORD 'AND' TYPO CORRECTED

 

 

THE FOLLOWING SHOULD READ "...in the Vine City Voter Registration

Drive AND in Alabama."

 

galva108, "Bhakti Ananda Goswami"

<bhakti.eohn@v...> wrote:

>

> Monitoring Electoral Processes Everywhere: The Ideal Versus The Real

>

> As a political 'Independent', Bhakti Ananda Goswami has been a human

> rights and human services activist since his youth. His first

> experience with poll monitoring to ensure minority voting rights was

> in the 1960s. While he was working as a registration volunteer in a

> poor black area of Detroit, some of his dear friends were beaten for

> trying to assist black voters to register and vote in the Vine City

> Voter Registration Drive AND in Alabama. Such early experiences

> with 'white' racist voting suppression in the USA offended his

> deepest sense of samata and justice, and had a profound effect on

his

> committment to all kinds of human rights activism.

>

> He has never registered as either a Democrat or Republican, and does

> not endorse all of the official positions of either of these

parties,

> but in his experience with the mechanics of the American voting

> process, he has found that the history of Republican Party minority

> vote suppression has been shocking.

>

> Thus he has agreed to forward this email to others at the request of

> another voting rights activist.