Tennessee Senate Race May Reach Beyond Election
Sari Gelzer and Scott Galindez report: When voters go to the polls in Tennessee, they will have the option to elect the
first African-American senator in the South since reconstruction. We spent time in Memphis, where we discussed the
election with local civil-rights leaders. We also looked into preparations for protecting voters' rights in Tennessee.
Virginia: FBI Looks Into Voter Intimidation
Just ahead of today's election, state officials alerted the US Justice Department to several complaints of suspicious
phone calls to voters about where they cast ballots and their preferences for the Senate.
New Rules, Machines Frazzle Poll Workers
Programming errors and inexperience dealing with electronic voting machines frustrated poll workers in hundreds of
precincts early Tuesday, delaying voters in Indiana, Ohio and Florida and leaving some with little choice but to use
paper ballots instead.
Election Fixing Charges Fly in Utah County
The Associated Press is reporting that voting in Daggett County Utah is so popular that it now has more registered
voters than the county's population. According to AP: "A spokesman for Attorney General Mark Shurtleff says complaints
of vote-stuffing in the county are being investigated."
US Sends Poll Watchers to 69 Jurisdictions
The Justice Department is dispatching more than 850 people to watch the polls in 69 jurisdictions across the country
today, focusing primarily on areas with closely contested races or a high number of minority voters. The number of poll
watchers is a record for Justice and more than twice the number sent during the 2002 midterm elections. Justice has sent
observers and monitors to polls around the country since the Voting Rights Act of 1965 took effect.
Paul Krugman | Limiting the Damage
"President George W. Bush isn't on the ballot Tuesday. But this election is, nonetheless, all about him. The question is
whether voters will pry his fingers loose from at least some of the levers of power, thereby limiting the damage he can
inflict in his two remaining years in office," writes Paul Krugman.
Pascal Riche | Message
Pascal Riche and le Monde suggest that the world sees today's vote as a referendum on the Bush presidency.
In Missouri, a Forecast for Voter Misery
The state most ripe for voting disputes in tomorrow's voting, according to election law experts across the ideological
spectrum, may well be Missouri.
It's a Candidate Calling. Again.
This year's heavy volume of automated political phone calls has infuriated countless voters and triggered sharp
complaints from Democrats, who say the Republican Party has crossed the line in bombarding households with recorded
attacks on candidates.
The New York Times | This Election Is About Bush, and His Party Must Go
The New York Times editors write: "President George W. Bush's tenure has done a terrible job on the basics. Its
tax-cutting-above-all-else has wrecked the budget, hobbled the middle class and endangered the long-term economy. It has
refused to face up to global warming and done pathetically little about America's dependence on foreign oil."
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