To understand why the recount process is important, we should remember that this is but the latest chapter in the centuries-long struggle to achieve one-person-one-vote democracy in this country.

reading this article makes one remember how the struggle to make every vote count, let alone allow every vote to take place, has continually been a long road that has never been fulfilled. we take it for granted as a concept, but the reality today and ever since the beginning of our republic-- 'democracy'-- is far from truly achieved