Paul Krugman and Salon have good articles on the overwhelming evidence that Republicans all around the country are engaged in various techniques to steal the election. Everything from continued disenfranchisement of blacks in Florida to the shredding of Democrats' registrations, it's all some pretty wild stuff.
Lawsuits are already starting all over the country. If Bush wins, there's going to be a deluge. Should be some really, really good times.
Whose applications get rejected? A Washington Post examination of rejected applications in Duval County found three times as many were from Democrats, compared with Republicans. It also found a strong tilt toward rejection of blacks' registrations.
The case of Florida's felon list - used by state officials, as in 2000, to try to wrongly disenfranchise thousands of blacks - has been widely reported. Less widely reported has been overwhelming evidence that the errors were deliberate.
In an article coming next week in Harper's, Greg Palast, who originally reported the story of the 2000 felon list, reveals that few of those wrongly purged from the voting rolls in 2000 are back on the voter lists. State officials have imposed Kafkaesque hurdles for voters trying to get back on the rolls. Depending on the county, those attempting to get their votes back have been required to seek clemency for crimes committed by others, or to go through quasi-judicial proceedings to prove that they are not felons with similar names.
