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Seriously, forget the issues and Palin and all this crap for a second and think about the voter suppression plans the GOP rolls out every election year. Like this for example:
"Officials in charge of voter registration in Virginia seem to be asking for Federal investigation... According to this press release from this extremely important battleground state, students are being told that they risk losing their scholarship and tax dependency status if they register to vote in their college, as opposed to home, state. And surprise, it appears all these warnings are bogus and have one impact and one impact only: to suppress voter turnout among college-aged people, who are overwhelmingly supporting Obama this year. Memo to Virginia: that’s illegal. "
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And this from a hotly contested federal election in Mississipi this week:
"Hosemann could cite no statute supporting his decision to move the race from the top of the ballot. However, Attorney General Jim Hood did cite election law requiring federal races be placed at the top of the ballot...
...The unlawful ballot is expected to cause confusion for voters expecting to find the Musgrove-Wicker race with other federal elections where it belongs. The most prominent election in the state will be one of the hardest races to find on Election Day.
Mississippi election law, code 23-15-367, clearly states federal races, like the Musgrove-Wicker race, belong on the top of the ballot."
--------------------------Mmmm...hmmmm. And how many states are STILL using Diebold machines with no paper trail? Are you saying the US is so fucking advanced that in 8 years we couldn't fix this problem?
The GOP uses a hundred and one dirty tricks to complicate and undermine the legitimacy of the voter process. It was still a mathematical/Statistical near impossibility for the 2004 exit polls to be as off as they were...
If you think that's not going to happen this time around, you're nuts. Obama might have overcome it if he could guarantee a landslide, but that's looking less and less likely as the McCain throws smoke mirrors and red meat at the usual suspects. Keeping it just close enough that dirty tricks matter.