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Democrats in Massachusetts can now trade their votes with third-party supporters in battleground states, thanks to a website run by a Harvard alum...
While any eligible student can choose to vote in Massachusettes, students from battleground states are, predictably, voting absentee. And campus political groups have tailored their efforts accordingly...
...most coveted newspaper endorsement in the U.S. is expected this week, and it's not coming from the Washington Post or the New York Times. It's due from the editors of the Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch, the only daily paper in the most contested part of the hottest battleground state. Both campaigns have spent countless hours and dollars trying to snare...
...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...