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...rumors among African American early voters in Florida that their votes will never be counted, that early voting is but a scam to disenfranchise them. Around the country, new voters are being told that their registrations may not even be processed on time. And then there’s Ohio: The state uses more provisional ballots than any other. If you show up to a Buckeye State polling booth with a wrong ID you will be handed one of these ballots. Your vote will not be counted on Nov. 4, and the state Supreme Court will decide if it ever...
...genuinely scary thing I’ve heard again and again is how this election could be “stolen again.” “Ohio,” “Florida,” and “registration inconsistencies” keep being whispered. And to paranoid liberals—the kind who hit refresh on the DailyKos homepage every few minutes—even the recent good news for Obama can jinx the election...
...This kind of neck-and-neck finish would put a tremendous strain on any state's electoral infrastructure (see Ohio in 2004). So the question looming like Spanish moss in Tallahassee is, Has Florida girded itself adequately since 2000 to keep whatever cracks haven't been fixed - especially in trouble spots like Palm Beach - from turning a tight race into a real mess...
...crucial to his calculus of the big victory that his strategists now believe to be tantalizingly close, Obama is delivering a tutorial on election mechanics at nearly every stop, exhorting people to get to the polls and vote - even if it means, as it has in early voting in Ohio, that they have to stand in line for hours to do it. "If you're in line by 5 o'clock, they've got to let you vote," he told an estimated 60,000 supporters at a rally in front of the Statehouse in Columbus, a city where statistics indicate...
...Solutions (formerly Diebold Election Systems), all of which have been accused of facilitating - or participating in - fraud. Diebold renamed itself in 2007 following the resignation of its chief executive, Walden O'Dell, over a fund-raising letter sent before the 2004 election stating that he was "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the President...