Block the Vote

Rolling Stone by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr, Greg Palast | Oct. 18, 2008 (Investigative Report)
Will the GOP's campaign to deter new voters and discard Democratic ballots determine the next president?

On February 5th, the day of the Super Tuesday caucus, a school-bus driver named Paul Maez arrived at his local polling station to cast his ballot. To his surprise, Maez found that his name had vanished from the list of registered voters, thanks to a statewide effort to deter fraudulent voting. For Maez, the shock was especially acute: He is the supervisor of elections in Las Vegas. Full Story »

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Jim Lang
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 by Jim Lang - Oct. 31, 2008

This is clearly a partisan article that makes no pretense of balance. Nevertheless, it points to and discusses a very real and well documented problem -- that of large numbers of qualified US citizens being deprived of their right to vote. One can take issue with many unsupported assertions as to who is responsible and their motives but multiple independent studies, some referenced in the article, have concluded that acutal voter fraud is negligible while the deprivation of the right to vote is widespread. This article does well in highlighting the issue but unfortunately does it in such a way that it will be immediately dismissed by a large fraction of the electorate in a position to do something about it.

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