Block the Vote?
October 28, 2008
In the new issue of Rolling Stone is a sobering look at ongoing efforts by Republicans to suppress votes in numerous states, with a focus on New Mexico. Authors Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Greg Palast, who documented election fraud in books on the 2004 and 2000 elections, respectively, claim the Help America Vote Act actually gave vote-suppression advocates the tools they sought to disqualify and remove voters from the rolls based on technicalities and arcane interpretations.
These tactics are more effective in very close elections than those with a wider margin. But before you make your plans to celebrate an Obama victory next Tuesday, give this article a read and think about volunteering to be a poll watcher.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/23638322/block_the_vote/print
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