Though Republicans have criticised Kerrys claims of Black Voter

[Nicholas_J]

Disenfranchisement, current attempts to challenge voters in Ohio and Florida largely effect black voters.

In Florida , though the average increase in new voter registration has been 18 percent, new registration among blakc voters has been 36 percent, though this number is a little moer than twice the population growth of the black community in Florida since 2000.

In Ohio Democrats may have outregistered Republicans five fold, with a possible 600,000 new Democrats registered. Republics and are ready to challnge every voter who come into vote in order to create long lines, in order to get democrats to leave, rather than wait. Hopefully the Democrats will get the courts to prohibit such behavior as voter intimidations, or even racial bias.

Though the ratio of voters in Florida has remained close to the same, many of Florida's new democrats are either Black or Hispanic.

In Dade County Democrats registered more than twice as many new Republicans. Democrats Registered almost 60,000 New Democratd while Republicans Registered a little over 29,000.

In Broward, Democrats Registered over 77,000 New Voters while Reublicans Registered a little over 16,000 New Voters.

Palm Beach ground zero of the 2000 election Registered over 34,000 voters while New Republicans number about 2,200.

Large percentages of the new voters in these counties were minorities, in particular black voters angry about their disenfranchisement in 2000.

I certainly HOPE democrats will play the race card regarding attempts to challenge newly registered voters this year.

Even in Arizona, early estimated indicate a 21 percent increase in new voters registrations and there is much that indicates that this is largely new registration among Democrats. There may be an unexpected surprise coming out of Arizona next week. And there may be more attempts to repress that vote.

[seabeyond]

1. have you heard of any dems griping about lines for

early voting. i cant see the pissed of dems that really want bush out and registering for first time are going to leave. where i can see the not so pumped repugs may not be thrilled with staying in a long ass line

[Nicholas_J]

2. So far no

But from what i have read, repukes are planning to have hundreds of pollworkers assigned to districts that are known to be heavily democratic and they have said that they are planning to object to every voter who comes in and is a registered democrat. They can tell from the lists they have to check if a voter is registered at the polling place what their party affiliation is. This in itself is a violation of the secret ballot principle. The correct way to do this would be to have lists with the persons name, and the fact that they are registered in that district, BUT to have no indication of the party affiliation. This would be the best way to prevent vote fraud by intimidation, as it would keep the persons ballot and vote secret, which is what is supposed to occur by law. This would not prevent anyone from checking lists to see if a person was actually registered in a particular area, and would enable the poll workers to check to see if that person already voted, but they would not be able to know if any particular voter was a democrat or republican, and so not be able to try to prevent people from voting for partisan reasons, only reasons of actual legitimate registration problems.