Josh Marshall Tells HOW the GOP is Stealing Votes

(November 02, 2004 -- 10:31 PM EST // link // print)

Across the board the story is the same in Ohio, a lawsuit strategy from Republicans is causing delays and shutdowns in precincts that remained open to allow people who were already in line to vote. Lawsuits create delays; folks leave.

-- Josh Marshall

(November 02, 2004 -- 09:52 PM EST // link // print)
What we're hearing is that Florida is too close to call. In Ohio, the GOP is pulling out all the stops, frankly, to steal it in the courts, trying to get courts to stop voting for people who were already in line when the polls closed, ruling against provisional ballots, the whole nine yards. It's wall to wall ugly.

-- Josh Marshall

(November 02, 2004 -- 08:49 PM EST // link // print)
Republicans make a lot about letting the people decide elections and not lawyers. But that's not how it's turning out tonight. Across the east and into the midwest, they're hitting the courts at every opportunity, trying to cut off as many opportunities to vote as possible.

-- Josh Marshall

(November 02, 2004 -- 08:39 PM EST // link // print)
In Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, polling stations ran out of provisional ballots and voters were turned away through the day. Voting officials worked the overtime getting more ballots prepared. And now a judge has ordered that voters can come to the City-County building until 9:30 PM -- 90 minutes after the close of voting -- to vote by provisional ballot.




This is contrary to some published reports (CNN) that all the polls are open in the county.





-- Josh Marshall