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Thursday, October 28, 2004

Justice to monitor voting in 25 states

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The Justice Department yesterday said it will send out 1,090 federal poll watchers to monitor elections in 25 states, three times as many as in 2000, as Democrats and Republicans squabbled in an escalating war of words over potential voter fraud and intimidation.

In Florida, election officials in Broward County, a trouble spot in 2000, yesterday began sending out about 10,000 absentee ballots to replace ones that vanished after being mailed earlier this month.

Florida Republicans, who think that thousands of voter registrations collected in that state are invalid, said they fear that sending out duplicate absentee forms could open the door to more fraud. Democrats expressed concern that some people will receive their absentee ballots too late to cast votes.

A report yesterday by Advancement Project, a national civil rights organization, said an unprecedented number of highly partisan poll watchers or "challengers" are expected to be deployed disproportionately in predominately black precincts.

Judith Browne, the project's acting co-director, said it was imperative that supervisors of elections establish guidelines so partisan challengers will not be permitted to lodge indiscriminate challenges, tie up poll workers, clog the election process and disenfranchise black voters.

Meanwhile, the Federation for American Immigration Reform yesterday warned that little is being done to protect against non-U.S. citizens' casting what could be the deciding votes.

"We are staring at the possibility of our second consecutive disputed national election, and all across the country, voter registrars are turning a blind eye to a huge potential source of voter fraud," FAIR President Dan Stein said. "If American elections are to be decided by American citizens, we must secure our registration process to ensure that only eligible voters may register."

In addition to instances of overt fraud, Mr. Stein said an unknown number of illegal aliens across the country might have registered to vote under the so-called motor-voter law. He said with no requirements to verify citizenship, beyond an attestation on the registration form, and no effort by county registrars to verify the validity of the information given by an applicant, it is reasonable to assume that many noncitizens are registered to vote.

With four days to go before Tuesday's presidential election, the accusations are part of a continuing increase in threats between the supporters of the two parties, with an army of lawyers hired by both Republicans and Democrats ready to take any challenge to court. Dozens of lawsuits already have been filed, and both parties have ramped up their rhetoric, accusing each other of trying to sabotage the election.

The Republican National Committee (RNC) has been concerned about the potential for fraud resulting from a multimillion-dollar, voter-registration drive financed by a coalition of Democratic tax-exempt organizations, labor unions and wealthy donors that targeted, in part, black, Hispanic and urban working-class neighborhoods.

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