Carter Predicts Unfair Election in Massachusettes

An Al-Manac Exclusive

Boston - Official Democratic excuse maker Jimmy Carter today declared that conditions for a fair election in the liberal state of Massachusettes "still don't exist."

Carter, citing the experience of his Carter Center in monitoring international elections, said "some basic international requirements for a fair election are missing in Massachusettes."

Most significant, he said, were requirements that a nonpartisan electoral commission or official organize and conduct the electoral process and that voting procedures be uniform for all citizens.

He said Massachusettes' top election official in 2000, Democrat William Frances Galvin, was "highly partisan."

He said John F'n Kerry, the Massachusettes Senator, had done little to "correct these departures from principles of fair and equal treatment."

"With reforms unlikely at this late stage of the election, perhaps the only recourse will be to focus maximum public scrutiny on the suspicious process in Massachusettes," Carter said.