Block the Vote

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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Mike LaBonte
3.2
by Mike LaBonte - Oct. 31, 2008

I like the effort that Palast puts into his stories, but I deplore his willingness to present biased data. This story falls seriously short on substantiating many of it's claims. The list of challenges to voting is good; but the numbers are suspect. For example, the claim of 1.6 million uncounted votes seems to combine uncounted provisional and absentee ballots, but it is not explained that there are legitimate reasons for rejecting these.

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