Be sure to check out Art Levine’s excellent "The Republican War on Voting" in the American Prospect. The wide-ranging Rovian assault on voting has not been stopped by ousting such characters as the odious former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell. Levine delves into:
…the Republican Party’s ongoing nationwide campaign to suppress the low-income minority vote by propagating the myth of voter fraud. Using various tactics
— including media smears, bogus lawsuits, restrictive new voting laws
and policies, and flimsy prosecutions — Republican operatives,
election officials, and the GOP-controlled Justice Department have limited voting access and gone after Project Vote,
1.6 million largely Democratic-leaning voters since 2004.All told,
non-profit groups registered over three million new voters in 2004,
about the same time that Republican and Justice Department efforts to
publicize "voter fraud" and limit voting access became more widespread.
Think 2000 and 2004 can’t happen again? They can, unless voters and the media wise up.