Block the Vote:Will the GOP's campaign to deter new voters and discard Democratic ballots determine the next president?

Block the Vote : Rolling Stone

Block the Vote

Will the GOP's campaign to deter new voters and discard Democratic ballots determine the next president?

ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. & GREG PALAST

Posted Oct 30, 2008 11:10 AM

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In state after state,
Republican operatives — the party's elite commandos of
bare-knuckle politics — are wielding new federal legislation
to systematically disenfranchise Democrats. If this year's race is
as close as the past two elections, the GOP's nationwide campaign
could be large enough to determine the presidency in November. "I
don't think the Democrats get it," says John Boyd, a voting-rights
attorney in Albuquerque who has taken on the Republican Party for
impeding access to the ballot. "All these new rules and games are
turning voting into an obstacle course that could flip the vote to
the GOP in half a dozen states."

Suppressing the vote has long been a
cornerstone of the GOP's electoral strategy...

  Well, there they go again... Expect the mother of all stock-market crashes if they manage to steal this one: should be good for about minus 3000 on the dow by following Friday.