For someone who frequently chides the Democrats for "getting worked", would have thought you would commend them for learning from the Bush 2000 campaign.

Thuggery!
Riots!
Lawsuits!

I'm not sure why you are suprised that the Kerry campaign intends to challenge close results. What campaign, Republican or Democrat, wouldn't?

My bad, this comment should be attached to the "Democrat's Strategy" post.

Thuggery? Trying to weed out the 100,000 bogus voter registrations to prevent cheating democrats from voting in every precinct they can get to on election day is thuggery?

To be sure, I am not surprised at anything Kerry will stoop to. Unfortunately for him, inspite of the efforts at cheating, it isn't going to be close enough for his teams of lawyers to come into play or for anyone to care about his expected wolf cries.

Are we really going to pretend that this "voter fraud prevention effort" is anything but an attempt to prevent people from voting.

Somewhere---I thought it was on this site---I read a post about how Democrats were undermining democracy by engaging in voter fraud. You want to talk about undermining democracy, let's talk about what happens when voters are challeneged at their polling place.

Two things are inevitable:
1) Some legally registered voters will be disenfranchised.
2) Lines at polling places will move more slowly.

The problem lies in the fact that poll observers are directed by the two parties and are working from party-supplied lists.

Republican observers are going to focus on Democrats, and vice-versa. Further, the parties are going to deploy their observers into areas where the other party has an advantage.

The party-supplied lists are even more of a problem. Each party has incentive to construct their list in such a way as to benefit themselves. History backs this up; past attempts to clean up voter registration lists prevent legally registered voters from voting.

The idea that people are going from precinct to precinct casting multiple votes seems to strain the bounds of credibility. Even if you believe this is going to happen, I don't understand how it would be detected and prevented by people on the ground at the precinct level.