Looks like if a candidate can win Ohio AND Florida, he will be president. If they split those two states, the electoral vote could be very close.
posted by jr at 12:55 A.M. EST on Wed Oct 27, 2004 #
"Fraud File: States to Watch:"
"Florida again. And Ohio and Iowa and New Mexico and maybe Wisconsin or one or two other battleground states. All are possible settings for a replay of the court contests and recounts that marked the 2000 election."
posted by jr at 10:31 P.M. EST on Sat Oct 30, 2004 #
"Thousands of people who are registered voters in Ohio and Florida possibly could vote twice in the presidential election through use of absentee ballots, The Plain Dealer reported Sunday."
"Virtually nothing prevents transitory voters from casting ballots in multiple states. In the 2000 presidential election, about 100 Ohio voters also cast ballots in Florida, where the presidential race was decided by just 537 votes, the northeast Ohio newspaper reported."
"About 11,000 Republicans and 9,600 Democrats are registered in both Ohio and Florida, records show. There at least 6,400 who are either independent or registered with another party."
posted by jr at 01:29 A.M. EST on Sun Oct 31, 2004 #
"In a setback to Ohio Republicans, a federal appeals court yesterday ruled that thousands of newly registered voters won't have to prove at hearings that they live where they are registered."
"Mark Weaver, an attorney representing the Ohio Republican Party, [said] the GOP is using the 50-year-old state law to prevent voter fraud."
"As an example, he cited a 14-year-old boy who registered to vote at a fair in Sandusky County and whose mother saw his name in a list of voters whom the GOP challenged."
"Of the 23,000 Ohioans whose voter registration was challenged, all will be able to vote on Tuesday."
The motto for this year's election seems to be, "Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat."
posted by jr at 01:34 A.M. EST on Sun Oct 31, 2004 #
"Liberal filmmaker Michael Moore plans to have hundreds of cameras outside polling places in Ohio and Florida on Election Day to watch for attempts to suppress voter turnout."
"The director of the anti-Bush documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11" announced Saturday that a total of 1,200 professional and nonprofessional cameramen, filmmakers and videographers will bring their cameras to polling places in the two presidential battleground states, especially in minority communities."
And if there's no voter suppression, I predict Moore's gang will have an army of out-of-work actors on hand to simulate suppression.
posted by jr at 01:40 A.M. EST on Sun Oct 31, 2004 #
A pep talk for the so-called disenfranchised voters ...
"It is not too much to ask a prospective voter to take the time actually read, or have read to him, a voter registration card so he can fill it out properly. It is not a social injustice to ask a person to open up the letter carrying their new voter registration card, look at the address of the polling site and then find it at some point before the election. And it is not disenfranchisement requiring that you show up to vote on time, read the ballot, and pay attention to which lever you pull, box you check, or chad you poke."
posted by jr at 01:44 A.M. EST on Sun Oct 31, 2004 #
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