VOTER INTIMIDATION OR BAD PLANNING
Last week we mentioned a story out of Ohio about how more than 1,000 new voter registrations were suspicious. Some had non-existent addresses, several had remarkably similar signatures, one street name was consistently mispelled across registration forms. As a local prosecutor said, "We've seen voter fraud before, but never on this level." These suspicious registrations and absentee ballot requests came from Democrat favoring organizations, the NAACP National Voter Fund and Americans Coming Together.

But it seems suspicious activities aren't limited to the battleground state of Ohio (which Bush leads by 5% in our latest analysis). A telemarketing firm hired by the NAACP has been calling voters in North Carolina and telling them they can't vote in November. Maybe it's just poor planning. The NAACP could be contacting black voters to verify that they are registered to vote where they live, and, if not, they choose to frighten them by saying, "well, you won't be able to vote." Or maybe it's something else. In any case, there should be an investigation.

Singing-Nettle thinks the Ohio Secretary of State is being a little too anal about the requirements for registration forms. Of course, there's no evidence that this disadvantages any particular voting group, but that didn't prevent a little hysterics: "Will the Republicans stop at nothing?"