COLUMBUS, Ohio — Presidential elections are decided at the ballot box. This one could get a little assistance from the courtroom.
Lawyers for both parties are descending on key swing states, anticipating legal challenges after what could become a razor-thin decision that rests on how, where, and which ballots are counted. Such disputes could provide a coda to an election cycle that has been marked by state moves to limit early-voting days and require voters to provide photo IDs.
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I hope that we can wake up on Wednesday and start this discussion over again without the rancour. It frightens me to think that nearly 50 years after the voting rights act anyone, on either side, would try to suppress the vote. What have we got left in a country in which we have voter suppression?
It is so sad that we have come to this—that we can talk about sowing the seeds of democracy abroad while there are people here who would shred the flag with this sort of behavior. They ought to impeach the Governor of Ohio for what he is trying to pull. And the same treatment for anyone on the other side of the aisle who tampers with the vote.
And the campaign staff and the parties need to be monitoring their own to make sure things are right. Otherwise, it won't be the economy that takes us down as a nation. Our voting practices will qualify us as "third world".