Litigation Day

Control of Congress may be decided in the courts, starting Nov. 8. Everyone is speculating about which party will control Congress after next month's voting. But we may not know for a while. We could see either party pursue the kind of lawsuits that Al Gore unleashed. Full Story »

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J. Michele Freemon
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by J. Michele Freemon - Oct. 1, 2008

The WSJ seems to be focusing on only one side of this issue. Voter fraud is typically a concern of Republicans (and other conservatives), while Democrats (and other progressives) argue that Voter ID laws disenfranchise poor, elderly, and disabled voters. That more progressive viewpoint is nowhere in the article. There also seems to be an assumption that the increase in challenges to election contests is motivated solely by the fact that Al Gore challenged the 2000 election ("'In 2000 in Florida, we broke a psychic barrier,' says Doug Chapin"). There is not even a single mention of the fact that most of these more recent challenges have been because of faulty electronic voting devices. The article seems to me to be a piece written for conservatives about conservative issues with very little effort made to include progressive viewpoints.

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Needs balance.

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