that these reports keep coming out. This means they're being watched and being caught. They're being caught in time, too. My cousin in Ohio sent me all sorts of pained email 4 years ago about districts receiving more votes for the Republicans than there were actual voters. This should not happen again. I applaud the vigilant and hope the elections are smooth sailing.

It's not like any real Americans are being disenfranchised. It's just those godless atheist latte-sippin' libruls.

The GOP have played dirty before and will do it again because Karl Rove henchmen are in the McCain control tower.

A fictional cenario:

Someone blows up something Rove and McCain considers insignificent.

Rove henchmen set up a phoney letter, statement, or so called ex-Bin Laden terrorist to come forward and pretend they

"want Obama to be elected" so McCain can try and sell the public that terrorist want Obama.

A phony report of credible chatter from British intelligence, or some other country, in cahoots with Bush and Rove.

They've cornered Bin Laden,(so you better elect McCain GAME) but after the election he will have gotten away.

Friendly fire kills important military personel, but blame terrorist and the troop draw down.

Pay someone like theu did Chalabi to lie and say

"they are friends with Obama"

There are so many dirty things they will try, so look out.

And it went very very smoothly. I know volunteer workers at the polls and no one mentioned anomalies in Wake. The lines weren't long either. I suspect one of the open questions is the fact the Guilford went blue in 2004 by 1800 votes. It happens to be the third largest voting county in the state, after Mecklenberg (Blue) and Wake (Red).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election_in_North_Carolina,_2004

I have kids 18 and 19 in Broward County, both registered Democrat since they became 18. Yet we are getting tons of mail in the kids names only from both the McCain Campaign and the Repub Party. We've also had calls from both asking to speak to one of the kids by name, none for my wife and me.

I'm wondering if they are checking recent high school grads as a target for caging? Maybe they figure they'll catch kids who have moved out but not changed their addresses?

Either that or they got the lists from the Army recruiters and are concentrating on that?

What do you mean, "could" get dirty? You don't actually think the last two elections have been valid, do you?

What the Obama campaign damn well better be doing is preparing to place massive numbers of feet on the ground in every contested state across the country in the immediate aftermath of the election. Remember the Republican Hitler Youth flown in en masse to Florida to intimidate election officials during the recount, before the Surpreme Court ended the process with its successful putsch? If the Democratic Party permits that scenario to take place again (an act of abject cowardice and servility of which the gutless, craven Democrats are perhaps more capable than any organization on the planet Earth) they'll have no one to blame but themselves. Sometimes democracy needs to be defended with more than words, and if the diseased fringe of racist neocon authoritarian religious fanatics tries to steal yet another election, we better be good and ready to crack some Republican skulls.

To take it one step further, the Obama campaign and/or the DNC need to establish and heavily promote a nationwide, easy-to-remember phone hotline and website for reporting suspected suppression attempts or tampering. They should also, if they don't already, heavily distribute information on how to spot potential problems.

Not to worry; none other than the Washington Post is reporting tonight that Al Qaeda is rooting for McCain. I'm not joking. Check out the story for yourself. Their rationale is that they take credit for crippling our economy by forcing us to spend so much money on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and they feel McCain will keep Bush's disastrous policies pretty much in place.

While they sometimes make mistakes, after reading through all of the issues here I am happy to see that anywhere the courts have gotten involved this time around, they have decided for the people.

To take it one step further, the Obama campaign and/or the DNC need to establish and heavily promote a nationwide, easy-to-remember phone hotline and website for reporting suspected suppression attempts or tampering. They should also, if they don't already, heavily distribute information on how to spot potential problems.

-- Rayon Fog

What surprises me is that this is all suddenly in the media - again - just a few short weeks before the next election. The issue of organized voter disenfranchisement comes up every electoral cycle in the US. And as soon as the dust has settled on the questionable results (2000, 2004) of the most recent electoral mud-tussle, somehow everyone sort of just forgets that Diebold still supplies the voting machines, that the voter lists are under the supervision of partisan bureaucrats, and that none of this happens by accident. I know we aren't always good at long-term thinking, but sheesh.

It's one of those issues that isn't sexy, that happens in the background and that requires long-term, dogged and unrelenting activism. It's easier to be for a candidate for a few months than to work for electoral accountability year after year. But don't be surprised if the exit polls this year have a strange divergence from the final results - and not because the people who have just voted are fibbing.

Democracy - It's not for sissies.

Relax. None of this amounts to anything. The RNC will just have Diebold rerun the numbers, like they did in 2000 and 2004.

Everything's under control.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jy1sz-xBxf8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9Kq4dxPwY8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsgY4_BB2lo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Vvq_YseZVc

"Philadelphia city officials were also concerned about a flier tacked up on campuses and in minority neighborhoods that said law enforcement officials would be using the election to arrest people with outstanding warrants and parking tickets."

Why not return fire with fire? Post fliers claiming that IRS auditors will be using the election to contact people to discuss discrepancies on their tax returns over the past several years.