Monday, November 01, 2004

Report from Toledo: 8:30 PM

After further explanation, the workers at our hotel are quite happy we are here-one was planning on driving Dem's to the polls if she could get the day off-could come in handy after this commentator finds himself drunk on three bottles of champaigne and a little PCP tomorrow night, running naked around the hotel draped only in an Eminem inspired black hoody (just kidding, I forgot my PCP at home). With the dismissal of the appeal this afternoon by the Circuit Court the mystery for me going into tomorrow is what are the thousands of Republican challengers coming into the state going to do tomorrow if they can't go inside the polling site? In a way, this could lead to more intimidation as the challengers will be stationed outside the polling site and perhaps less monitored by electio officials. Hopefully, between Election Protection (the group Astro and I are with), the NAACP and the AFL-CIO will see enough monitors out tommorow in order to counteract these measures. Another encouraging sign is the possibility of a class action lawsuit by the NAACP filed on behalf of the more than 4000 people in Lucas County alone (Toledo area) who have had there names mistakenily purged and are given no opportunity to re-register. Stay tuned.