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[Previous entry: "Rupert Murdoch abuses his monopoly,"] [Main Index] [Next entry: "Election day."] 11/01/2004 Entry: "voter suppression efforts in Ohio." Judge knocks down GOP voter suppression efforts in Ohio. A win for the good guys for once. This was their big plan, to confuse the elderly, challenge the minorities, and slow the voting line to a crawl in democratic districts. That is the state of the Republican party today. The rulings apply to all Ohio's 88 counties, a spokesman for Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell, Carlo LoParo, told The Associated Press. Republicans promptly filed an appealed with the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, which includes all of Ohio. With the rulings, the two district-level judges made clear that they did not want partisan ballot challengers inside polling places, and that they believed that the disruption that such challenges would create outweighed any potential voting fraud, which Republicans have cited as the reason for the challengers. Update The feds stepped in to undo this. I'm sure the "party of states' rights" isn't going to complain. Small win for democracy in SD. Have your papers ready. The GOP Sovietization of America with more than a touch of Jim Crow continues. "It's not who votes that counts. It's who counts the votes." -- Joseph Stalin