Their dirty tricks to disenfranchise voters

After all, it was five Supreme Court justices’ votes--not the popular vote, or even an undisputed Electoral College decision--that made Bush president in 2000. And incredibly--in a country that claims to be the “world’s greatest democracy”--the justices might make the difference again in 2004.

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When they aren’t tossing registration forms in the garbage, Republicans are doing it by official means--through arbitrary rules and regulations.

In Florida, Secretary of State Glenda Hood told county officials to throw out registration cards from voters who do not check a box confirming that they are U.S. citizens--even if they sign an oath on the same form swearing that they are citizens. In Ohio, Republican Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell used an obscure provision in state election law--dating from before there were computers--to decree that all voter registrations had to be filled out on extra-heavy 80-pound paper stock.

In some cases, the “cure” for vote fraud isn’t only worse than the illness--it is the illness. In the name of getting rid of fraud, Blackwell tried to force election judges to use super-strict guideline to disqualify voters who had moved to a new address. So in the Republican stronghold of Hamilton County, registrars purged some 105,000 “inactive” registrants over the past four years.

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