Voter Fraud: The New York Times is reporting tens of thousands of eligible voters in at least six swing states have been removed from the rolls or have been blocked from registering in ways that appear to violate federal law. These states include Colorado, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Nevada and North Carolina.. We urge you to check your registration status by going to the National Association of Secretaries of State website and make sure you are eligible to vote. Don’t wait for November 4th to do this. Also, if you are denied a ballot on Election Day, request a Provisional Ballot and follow up with your state election board immediately.

Barack Obama's presidential campaign accused rival John McCain of using a false crusade against voter fraud to suppress legitimate votes in a growing spat over ballots ahead of the November 4 poll. The Obama campaign's top lawyer, Bob Bauer, accused Republicans on Friday of recklessly "plotting" to suppress legitimate votes and to "sow confusion and harass voters and complicate the process for millions of Americans." Bauer told reporters the fact that senior officials from the Justice Department leaked news of an FBI investigation into liberal-leaning community organization ACORN a day after McCain charged them with voter registration fraud shows that "an unholy alliance of law enforcement and the ugliest form of partisan politics" may have returned. (AP) The U.S. Supreme Court quashed attempts to force hundreds of thousands of newly registered voters to undergo added scrutiny in Ohio, potentially dealing a setback to John McCain less than three weeks before the election. (Wall Street Journal)

Responding to Senator Barack Obama's criticism of the escalating negative tone of Senator John McCain's campaign rhetoric, which now regularly includes hate propaganda and threats of violence from rally attendees, McCain went on the offense, his campaign claiming umbrage and outrage at comments by Congressman John Lewis, a civil rights pioneer, who warned last week the Republican presidential ticket is, “sowing the seeds of hatred and division, and there is no need for this hostility in our political discourse... During another period, in the not too distant past, there was a governor of the state of Alabama named George Wallace who also became a presidential candidate.” McCain immediately called Lewis’ remarks “beyond the pale” and called on Obama to repudiate them. On Monday McCain fumed to CNN that Lewis’ controversial remarks were “so disturbing” that they “stopped me in my tracks.” The Obama campaign said any comparisons to Wallace were out of line, but also said that “Lewis was right to condemn some of the hateful rhetoric that John McCain himself personally rebuked.” (Atlanta Journal-Constitution) This is, of course, the tried and true political technique of making one's negatives a positive, turning the outrage many Americans (and increasing numbers of Republicans) feel about the divisive and racist tone of the McCain campaign into a positive, with McCain incredulously claiming to be an innocent victim of race politics. While it is possible the senator really does not understand how incendiary and dangerous his campaign tactics have become, that possibility actually worries me more: that someone so completely out of touch with reality could possibly win the Oval office. That his supporters could regularly threaten Senator Obama with violence and those threats go unchallenged by McCain or Governor Palin, but McCain and Palin will be "stopped in their tracks" by anyone pointing out how patently racist and dangerous their scorched-earth hate rallies are. McCain's phony outrage seizes on the racist component of Congressman Lewis' George Wallace comparison while missing the actual point of those remarks: that the GOP ticket is capriciously fueling an atmosphere of intolerance, violence and hate that will last well beyond this election. I frankly doubt the senator is that obtuse: I'm sure he got the point of Lewis' remarks, but chose nonetheless to politicize them, making Lewis the bad guy as he goes on pandering to racists and wing-nuts.