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...Browns bought their house on Glasgow Drive for $10,000. There, they raised a daughter and four sons and, through the years, celebrated Derwin's promotions, from street cop to narcotics detective to lieutenant to captain and eventually to assistant precinct commander. Derwin passed on his sense of racial pride and civic duty to his kids. His son Michael, 17, says his father "understood, just like Malcolm X, that you're going to lose a soldier in a battle. He took that in, and he wasn't afraid. Yet he still pressed forward...
What's at stake can be seen clearly at St. Adalbert's School, on a dreary back street in Cleveland's Fairfax neighborhood--a precinct seldom visited by snowplows, where many residents work at low-wage jobs or are unemployed. Yet students at St. Adalbert's sport crisp uniforms and each morning recite the Lord's Prayer together. Discipline is tight; the courses are rigorous. It's not hard to see why so many parents view this place--and the voucher program that has brought their kids to it--as a lifeline...
...certification more reliable, online ballots would also make civic responsibility an even easier duty to uphold. Augmented convenience and security would also serve to enfranchise more citizens who might otherwise be inhibited by the difficulty of finding time in their busy day to vote. Furthermore, the demand for precinct voting supervisors would be diminished as well by home and work balloting, which would reduce the number of voters showing up to vote in person at each precinct...
...close. It came down to the state of Florida. They counted the votes. Mr. Bush won. But it was very close, so they had a recount. They counted the votes again--from the top of Florida to the bottom, from the east, where former Queens Democratic precinct captains paper the condos with Gore flyers, to the west, to the Panhandle, where Republicans stayed home after being told by the networks that it was over, Gore had won. (If Jesse Jackson liked these people, he'd call them "those who were cruelly disenfranchised by the media.") And even the recount showed...
...loser this time starts with a constituency of exactly 50% of America--give or take a precinct. The entire American yin has been radicalized against the whole American yang. The memory of the 2000 postelection chadfest will revive an angry energy in 2004, which will produce the biggest voter turnout in history...