A federal judge blocked this Missouri amendment when it was first
enacted, but I guess I haven't kept track of what is happening.
I will do the google tomorrow, but on other threads we have discussed
the mission of the Bush Justice Department to disenfranchise black
voters. (I don't think they were targeting nuns.) Which makes it
more fucking amazing that Obama has won this nomination.
In a little publicized story, the GAO found that there were disturbing irregularities in the 2004 Ohio presidential vote, many involving
black voters. From
Was the 2004 Election Stolen by Robert F.
Kennedy, Jr.,
Rolling Stone, June 1, 2006:
The reports were especially disturbing in Ohio, the critical battleground state that clinched Bush's victory in the electoral college. Officials there purged tens of thousands of eligible voters from the rolls, neglected to process registration cards generated by Democratic voter drives, shortchanged Democratic precincts when they allocated voting machines and illegally derailed a recount that could have given Kerry the presidency. A precinct in an evangelical church in Miami County recorded an impossibly high turnout of ninety-eight percent, while a polling place in inner-city Cleveland recorded an equally impossible turnout of only seven percent. In Warren County, GOP election officials even invented a nonexistent terrorist threat to bar the media from monitoring the official vote count.
Was the 2004 Election Stolen? : Rolling Stone