yes, this country is VERY paradoxical... You can buy a gun, but you can't get medical care. The list goes on...

It's still happening in Florida (and elsewhere)... It never stopped. It's even gotten to some of those who were actually doing the disfranchising... They admitted that they were intentionally doing it.

It's in the same league as the GOP manipulations of how states votes are counted for president... Two examples tell it all:
1) Nebraska. Predominantly a GOP state... But, it has one large city and in 2008, that one city voted majority for Obama... Nebraska allocates its vote by congressional district - so Obama got one vote from Nebraska, while McCain got the rest.
2) Pennsylvania. Historically, Pennsylvania's votes were "winner take all" - whichever candidate gets a majority of the popular vote received ALL of the state's electoral votes. In 2008, Obama got them all.

What the GOP is doing (in both states - they may have completed / succeeded. I don't know... Personal issues have distracted me a lot the past few months.) is the following:
1) In Nebraska - they are arguing that winner should take all - not go proportional as it was in 2008... This would give all the votes to the GOP candidate.
2) In Pennsylvania - they are arguing that electoral votes should be proportional to the popular vote, so that nobody is disfranchised. In 2008, this would have given McCain an extra 10 votes... Wouldn't have changed things... But, this time around the combined 11 votes could well make a big difference.

Amazing - same party opposite arguments in two states... And few people are calling them on it and/or saying "hey, wait a minute"... So, yeah, a LOT of effort is going into manipulating who can vote and whether the votes can count over here...

And, this is all before the $$$$$$$ of dollars being spent are spent.

Annette