Daschle Panics, Sues Republicans
Daschle has asked a federal court to keep GOP poll watchers out of polling places tomorrow.In 2002 Thune was narrowly defeated and there were reports of vanloads of Indians walking into a polling place and saying that they are one person after another until an unused name was found. After voting they reportedly loaded up and proceeded to the next polling place.
This year:
Daschle charges that GOP poll watchers have been crowding voters in Lake Andes and making notes as they voted, writing down license plate numbers of Native American voters and loudly discussing other Native Americans who have been prosecuted for voter fraud.There is no evidence to support this claim. Daschle will lose his suit. On the other hand, I predict, Republicans will not be able to stop enough voter fraud to keep Daschle from winning.
Update: A federal appeals court in Ohio has ruled that poll watchers are allowed under Ohio state law.
The court said that while there is a strong public interest in letting registered voters vote freely, there is also "strong public interest in permitting legitimate statutory processes to operate to preclude voting by those who are not entitled to vote."Hopefully, the feds in SD will follow suit.
Hat tip to the Command Post.
Blog post #4016 in category
Races of '04
posted 1 November 04