Thank goodness this year a Democratic presidential candidate won't give up the fight as Al Gore did in 2000, or not press the case in 2004 as Barbara Boxer now says she regrets. Barack Obama ain't goin' out like that. Read the New York Daily News piece below and learn what the campaign is doing to avoid a repeat of Florida in 2000, where thousands of voters were disenfranchised and a recount was called off, and Ohio in 2004, where the secreraty of state there (not coincidentally, the state's chairman of the George W. Bush reelection camapign) allowed an election day climate in which mostly ethnic minority and low income communities were deprived of needed voting machines and mostly white affluent ones to have a surplus of machines that weren't even used, causing thousands of voters to wait for hours and their time to expire to vote. Oh HELL no! Not this year. Read on.
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