Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: Suppress the Vote?” href=”http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/16/opinion/16herbert.html?hp”> Bob Herbert: Suppress the Vote? (NY Times, 8/16/04) and Herbert: A chill in Florida (NY Times, 8/23/04) . (Free registration required)

Here’s more chicanery from the republican party in Florida, a swing state and state where thousands of mostly black voters were disenfranchised in the 2000 election (see the thorough reporting of Greg Palast)

State police officers have gone into the homes of elderly black voters in Orlando and interrogated them as part of an odd “investigation” that has frightened many voters, intimidated elderly volunteers and thrown a chill over efforts to get out the black vote in November.

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