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September 25, 2004
| Prepare The Lawyers

John Fund on post-election 2004:

The Bush and Kerry campaigns are spending unprecedented millions on TV ads. But the real battle that could decide this election may be fought by the squadrons of lawyers both sides have hired to prepare Florida-style challenges to the results in any close state. Once again, America’s sloppy, fraud-prone voting system could turn Election Day into an Election Month of court challenges.

“If you think of election problems as akin to forest fires, the woods are no drier than they were in 2000, but many more people have matches,” says Doug Chapin, director of the nonpartisan Election Reform Information Project.



Posted by Alan at September 25, 2004 05:34 AM | TrackBack
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Yep.

On November 2nd, we’re going to see exactly how much damage to our democracy was incurred in 2000. I’m not optimistic.

:jackson

Posted by: jackson zed [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 25, 2004 09:22 AM

Election Month? It will take a month just to file the pretrial motions. If they had seriously challenged the election we would still be arguing the appeals now with less than 4 months to the next inauguration. “America’s sloppy, fraud-prone voting system ..” It is not a perfect world out here, we have probably the tightest election system in the world. I like it.

Posted by: blaine [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 25, 2004 11:56 PM

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