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Rebuffing G.O.P., 2 Judges Bar Challengers at Polls in Ohio Looks like the judges felt it was also unfair. There is one thing that I find particularly disgusting about the election process this year is the non-stop effort to try and STOP people from voting. That people would undertake efforts where one possible outcome may be reducing people voting is the lowest form of participation. I invite you to listen to this story on This American Life... but be aware, as the show says, you will be screaming at the radio at least some point while listening.

Other examples are here: eRiposte and dKosopedia

Look, I'm all for making sure only people who are registered can vote, but these people have to be some of the lowest form of human life. What could be going through their head... even if they did nothing but enforce the law as written, they MUST know that at least a side effect of their actions would be the delaying or prevention of voting by people who do not have an entire day to take off. Is your candidate winning really worth stopping the most fundamental aspect of our democracy?

I always try and be as non-partisan as I can about this stuff but can you show me the Democrats who are breaking the law with the number and scope of people affected as these Republican leaning organizations? I suppose there are gray areas like the Jeb Bush fiasco where he has removed 23,000 black felons but left 23,000 hispanic felons (who tend to lean Republican) on the voter lists, but tearing up hundreds of registrations is about as black and white as you can get. You cannot compare people registering fake people for crack with preventing people who have a right to vote from voting. What is wrong with you people?