Sunday, October 24, 2004

Voter intimidation

I've been seeing this story about how the Republicans are going into "urban" polling places in Ohio to make sure "fraud" doesn't happen all over the place. There's little doubt in my mind they've been instructed to look official and aggressively question racial minorities, especially women, before they vote. Everyone is disgusted at the obvious lie they are using to justify this behavior, which is that they think there's widespread fraud.

But in one sense, the conservatives who are going to do this aren't lying when they say that they think that there's fraudulent voting in minority communities. Considering the racist elements of the Republican party, it's safe to say that plenty of conservatives think there's something wrong with minorities having the vote to begin with.

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