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...numbering in the thousands. According to Bob Bauer, counsel to the Democratic National Committee, these teams of election lawyers, referred to as SWAT teams, “will have done nothing but prepare through the fall.” Republicans have prepared by creating a network of lawyers in battleground states, and augmenting them with reinforcements. The Bush-Cheney campaign says it is targeting 30,000 precincts in 17 states that were the scene of past election problems; Democrats cite a similar number. Republican and Democrat lawyers say that at least one court case contesting the election seems inevitable...
...unique circumstances—technical voting problems, a near tie at the ballot box, and state law wherein post-election challenges were legal—is true. However, as improbable as the Florida fiasco seemed, it will almost certainly happen again, not in one, but in multiple states. Battleground states such as Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida (again) are likely settings for post-election litigation. These states have large numbers of Electoral College votes, making small numbers of disputed ballots worth fighting for. According to Bobby Burchfield, a Republican election lawyer who represented President Bush in the 2000 election recall...
...trend. For example, in the Iowa Caucuses, youth voter participation quadrupled. Now, as we head into the homestretch of the general election campaign, the reemergence of the “college kid” demographic cannot be ignored. In an election that will likely turn on a select few battleground states, registration data from these states suggests that the young voters just might be the ones to tip the scales...
With dozens dead in hotel bombings in Sinai, experts ask if al-Qaeda has found a new battleground...
That is what campaigning comes down to with three weeks left until voting day in a high-stakes election that a record number of Americans say they are following intensely, with polls showing the race too close to call. The battleground, once thought to comprise 20 states, is shrinking: Democrats and their allies, for example, are quietly redeploying some of their forces out of Michigan, which they are beginning to think they have won, and Arizona, which is starting to look like a lost cause for them. The number of undecided voters is minuscule--only 3% in a TIME poll...