The Fat Lady Still Isn’t Singing

Now that even the Government Accountability Office has agreed to investigate Election Day troubles, Lytel hopes the media he calls corporate might start to take the issue more seriously. Maybe even a senator or two will "stand up this time on January 6 — the day Congress meets to cast the electoral votes — and say, ‘Okay, tell us why you think the votes weren’t cast legitimately?’ and we’ll finally get to give our 57 reasons why we think the election was rigged."

If nothing else works, there’s always January 20, 2005. Several organizations are making plans to send buses full of protesters to the inauguration; the day has even inspired a whole, new anti-Bush grassroots effort: Turn Your Back on Bush. "We don’t need banners, we don’t need signs, we just need people," says the Web site turnyourbackonbush.org."We’re calling on people to attend inauguration as they are: members of the public. Once through security and at the procession, at a given signal, we’ll all turn our backs on Bush."

On the same day, Lytel will throw the largest "counterinaugural ball" in history at an as-yet-undisclosed D.C. location. "ReDefeat Bush will be reborn that night," he says. "Bigger and better than ever."