Reach Out and Disenfranchise Someone

"Employees of a private voter registration company allege that hundreds, perhaps thousands of voters who may think they are registered will be rudely surprised on election day," reports George Knapp. "The company claims hundreds of registration forms were thrown in the trash. Anyone who has recently registered or re-registered to vote outside a mall or grocery store or even government building may be affected." Eric Russell, a former employee of a Republican-affiliated company, called "Voters Outreach of America," says he personally witnessed company supervisors rip up and trash registration forms signed by Democrats. In a separate incident, Nevada election officials have rebuffed an attempt by a former GOP operative to purge about 17,000 Democrats from the voter rolls. (We reported on similar past examples of "voter suppression" in a chapter of our recent book, Banana Republicans.)