An Election Spoiled Rotten

TomPaine.com
Monday, November 1, 2004

It's not even Election Day yet, and the Kerry-Edwards campaign is
already down by a almost a million votes. That's because, in important
states like Ohio, Florida and New Mexico, voter names have been
systematically removed from the rolls and absentee ballots have been
overlooked-overwhelmingly in minority areas, like Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, where Hispanic voters have a 500 percent greater chance of their vote being "spoiled."

John Kerry is down by several thousand votes in New Mexico, though notone ballot has yet been counted. He's also losing big time in Colorado and Ohio: and he's way down in Florida, though the votes won't be totaled until Tuesday night.

Through a combination of sophisticated vote rustling-ethnic cleansing
of voter rolls, absentee ballots gone AWOL, machines that "spoil"
votes-John Kerry begins with a nationwide deficit that could easily exceed one million votes.

Colorado Secretary of State Donetta Davidson just weeks ago removed
several thousand voters from the state's voter rolls. She tagged felons as
barred from voting. What makes this particularly noteworthy is that,
unlike like Florida and a handful of other Deep South states, Colorado
does not bar ex-cons from voting. Only those actually serving their
sentence lose their rights.

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