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...protect black voters whose rights have been violated by faulty equipment, ill-motivated voter challenges and the manipulation of vote totals from electronic machines. Kerry and John Edwards proclaimed, with sermonic intensity, that they would fight for every vote to be counted, but black voters are left to fight ballot battles we thought were...
...poll watchers from both parties could enter precincts and scan the lists of voters to see who had turned out and who had not. Then they called their war rooms so volunteers--the Republicans called them flushers--could call the voters who hadn't yet cast a ballot, give a pep talk, offer a ride. In Franklin County the board of elections handed out more than 800 cell phones to the nonpartisan precinct judges there so they could call the board to report any problems or ask questions. In the end "the good people of central Ohio have kept their...
...held a ballot vote during class last week to give students the chance to reschedule. Many other instructors also allowed students to arrange different sections or attend classes given by different teaching fellows...
When you couldn’t vote, it was because someone threw away your registration card or directed you to the wrong polling place, not because of civil war or fixed elections or militants who chopped off your hands to physically prevent you from casting a ballot (c.f. Uganda, Sierra Leone, Haiti). Negative campaigns focused on character assassination, not literal assassination (c.f. Congo, Niger, and Burundi). If you thought Nader was hopeless, ask China’s Democracy Party how they feel. And in the end, the biggest retribution you have to fear from your Republican friends is their taunts...
...values were the most important issue driving their vote—four out of five of them backed Bush. The fact that the next president would have a chance to appoint a Supreme Court justice, potentially overturning Roe v. Wade, and the fact that gay marriage was on the ballot in states such Ohio helped drive these voters to the polls, potentially swinging the election in Bush’s favor...