Topic originally posted by dogindia in another thread.
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by Chris Bowers
Mon Nov 22nd, 2004 at 01:14:12 PM EST
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"In Ohio in 2004, another pattern of minority disenfranchisement is emerging which also does not take a belief in conspiracies and detailed probability analysis of precincts with automatic vote counting machines. Specifically, in Franklin County, even though voter registration had dramatically increased from 2000, the number of voting machines did not. Further, in Franklin County, which includes the city of Columbus, while extra voting machines were dispatched to heavily white suburbs, the number of voting machines placed in many heavily minority precincts was actually decreased from 2000"
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"This isn't a conspiracy of vote counting although there is more to be told on that front. This is, instead, a case of voter discouragement that remains all too typical in this country."