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GOP election outrage:

Well, the GOP dirty tricks machine is at it again. Not in the presidential race, but in a Mississippi Senate race. There are actually two Senate seats at issue in Mississippi on election day. One is not in doubt, Republican Thad Cochrane will easily win reelection. And his race is at the top of the election day ballot, where it belongs. No problem there.

However,

Mississippi state officials voted to put the other Senate race, technically a special election to complete the unexpired term of Trent Lott, near the bottom of the ballot. The reason presumably was to make it more difficult for the elderly and first time voters, disproportionately democrats, to find the race. A state Judge has blocked this ballot design, but the case will likely be appealed.

http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080910/NEWS/809100367/1001/news

In what should be no surprise, this race is highly competitive, with the democrat, former Governor of Mississippi Ronnie Musgrove running very close behind the GOP candidate.

Apparently the state official involved argued that "because the Wicker-Musgrove race is a special election to fill the remainder of (Trent) Lott's term, he is free to place it at the bottom, below state and county races."


http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/11/opinion/11thu1.html?ref=opinion

If anyone believes this outrageous explanation, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell them, cheap. It is nothing more than an attempt to steal an election by ballot trickery.

Republicans everywhere have a moral duty, a duty to their party and country, to speak out against this sort of disgusting dirty trick. Until a price has to be paid for these sorts of actions, Republicans (and some democrats) will continue to engage in this sort of activity.