Actually existing voter fraud: following up on the Michigan outrage from earlier today, a MetaFilter thread collects vote-suppression stories from across the nation:
Wisconsin
Mississippi
Virginia
Greg Palast has more. More and more I think we need a Voting Rights Act for the 21st Century—attacking the right to vote, increasingly the national policy of the Republican party, is the deepest, darkest betrayal possible in a democracy. The games have to stop. Elections must be fair.
And good for Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner for taking a stand on it.
Thursday, September 11, 2008
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