Making Votes Count: Is a Theft of the 2004 Election Already Underway?

One week from today, millions of American will enter the polls in one of the most hotly fought presidential races in U.S. history. Already thousands of people of begun voting in some two dozen states. And as some predict an unusually high voter turnout, there are widespread concerns of all votes being counted and the possibility of a fair election:

In Florida, the Department of Homeland Security said new U.S. citizens could not register to vote on the sidewalk outside where they were being sworn in.

The Pentagon is telling soldiers to send non-secret ballots by email to be counted by an outsourced firm.

Thousands of GOP election challengers will be placed at polling places across the country to question voter eligibility.

And electronic voting machines will count nearly a third of this year's votes - all without a paper trail.

Today, one week before the November 2nd election, we continue to look at issues of voter protection.

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