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11/02/2004 08:10:00 PMYep, the GOP won its court challenges to go into polling areas andchallenge voter by voter when they suspected fraud, creating aclimate of intimidation throughout the state of Ohio.But the eyes of the media were on them and they realized singlingout black voter after black voter was gonna look more like Selma,Alabama in the 50s than America today and the GOP backed downand said they were just gonna "observe.""Mark R. Weaver, the legal counsel for the Ohio Republican Party, saidtoday that party officials had instructed the challengers to lie low atthe polls and act more as observers than contestants," reports theNew York Times.""Given the Democrats' clear strategy of trying to turn each challengeinto a ruckus," Mr. Weaver said, "we wanted to make to sure topreserve the right to keep our observers in the polling places.""He added, "If there's litigation later, these will be contemporaneousnotes about what happened at these polling places.""
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11/02/2004 08:10:00 PMYep, the GOP won its court challenges to go into polling areas andchallenge voter by voter when they suspected fraud, creating aclimate of intimidation throughout the state of Ohio.But the eyes of the media were on them and they realized singlingout black voter after black voter was gonna look more like Selma,Alabama in the 50s than America today and the GOP backed downand said they were just gonna "observe.""Mark R. Weaver, the legal counsel for the Ohio Republican Party, saidtoday that party officials had instructed the challengers to lie low atthe polls and act more as observers than contestants," reports theNew York Times.""Given the Democrats' clear strategy of trying to turn each challengeinto a ruckus," Mr. Weaver said, "we wanted to make to sure topreserve the right to keep our observers in the polling places.""He added, "If there's litigation later, these will be contemporaneousnotes about what happened at these polling places.""
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