Tim Arsenault

To the editor,

Four years ago when Al Gore won the popular vote and lost the electoral vote when Bush and his cronies on the Supreme Court stole the election, I thought politics had become as nasty as possible. I was wrong.

What happened in 2000 is nothing compared to what the Bush folks are doing today. All over the country

Republicans have been conducting registration drives to enlist new voters, but have been accused of tossing out or destroying the registration forms of voters who identified themselves as Democrats.

Florida remains a joke, with tens of thousands of voters being illegally removed from the voting lists, and in Ohio the Republican Secretary of State has done everything possible, legal or not, to prevent new registrations.

Unless the election is a landslide you can bet that it won't be settled on November 2. Both parties have deployed legal teams to every corner of the nation to contest the outcome. And we're worried about elections

in Afghanistan and Iraq?

I've always believed the adage that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely, and that's what we're facing in America today. Republicans control the presidency, the U.S. House, the U.S. Senate, the Supreme Court, and in New Hampshire the entire congressional delegation, the N.H. House, the N.H. Senate and the governor's office.

There are no checks and balances. Is it any wonder that corruption is rampant, peoples rights are being trampled, and arrogance prevails over reason?

We must make a change on November 2 if we hope to preserve our Democratic ideals.

Tim Arsenault

Laconia