Sure, the polls look good now.  But there is still at least one more way that we could lose this election.  The other side could simply rely on their old tried and true voter suppression tactics to take away the votes of thousands of key voters in swing states around the nation.

Yes, many throughout the progressive movement have worked hard to register hundreds of thousands of new voters; but there are still many ways that Republican party operatives could either purge those names from the voter rolls or otherwise seek to have their ballots disqualified.

 There have already been so many reports of such nefarious activity around the country that I am really surprised that this issue isn't getting more coverage.

We already saw one report from the NY Times documenting how "tens of thousands of eligible voters in at least six swing states have been removed from the rolls or have been blocked from registering in ways that appear to violate federal law."

 And then yesterday the Denver Post reported that more than 6,000 voter registrations have been "delayed" in the critical swing state of Colorado because they provided their social security number for identification without checking a box which idicates that they don't have a driver's license that could be used for the same purpose.  So despite having a valid way to prove their status, the Republican Secretary of State is returning their forms to them -- just 19 days before the election.  

In Ohio, a GOP lawsuit has put nearly 200,000 voters at risk of being blocked from casting a regular ballot on Election Day. Republican operatives want to force the Ohio Secretary of State to release a list of 200,000 voters so that they can challenge them on Election Day because technical glitches have caused their names to fail a match with social security or motor vehicle registration databases.  But we know that Election Day challegnes to 200,000 names could create a situation that could cause havoc and long lines that discourages voters from participating. Is that really fair treatment for citizens whose only crime was that their name was misspelled by a bureaucrat entering their data? The matter is pending before the Supreme Court today.

And how about our old friend Florida?  There, Republican Secretary of State Kurt Browning is pushing enforcement of a "no match, no vote" law that could turn tens of thousands of voters away from the polls on Election Day  even if they can provide valid proof of eligibility when they show up at the polls.

Can you see a pattern here?  Republican operatives around the country are setting up barriers to voting that could trigger a tsunami of problems on Election Day.  We need to act now to draw attention to these problems and tell the bad actors to refrain from doing anything that would keep eligible voters from casting a ballot.  I hope you will consider signing Progressive Future's "Hands Off Our Votes!" petition to let these folks know that we are watching them and we won't let them get away with it.