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Republicans insist voter fraud is rampant. To combat it, they are challenging laws in states that make it easier to vote. But some legal scholars and voting experts worry that this broad-based attack could lead to serious and continuing challenges to the legitimacy of the next president.

Forget the candidates. The biggest political battle this weekend was between the Obama field staffs in Ohio and Pennsylvania, two big swing states. The two sides were locked into a ferocious war over who could knock on more voters’ doors.
The Obama campaign stoked the interstate rivalry by using an online scoreboard to keep track of [...]

Unlike previous Democratic presidential candidates, Obama has taken a cue from the state’s governor and freshman senator and launched an all-inclusive 88-county strategy with an unprecedented grassroots campaign. Ohioans have never seen anything like it.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio played a pivotal role in the last two presidential elections. With its primary concern — the economy — the nation’s primary concern, all eyes are sure to be on what its voters say on Election Day. But with charges of voter fraud swirling in the air, could the state be Florida 2008?

Apparently confirming news stories that the McCain campaign views its chances of winning Colorado as bleak and is reassessing its spending priorities for swing-state advertising, The Denver Post reports the campaign has severely scaled back its ad budget in the Rocky Mountain State.

A pair of polls released today indicate Sen. John McCain’s prospects for victory in the absolutely must-win state of Ohio may be growing dimmer.
The results of Quinnipiac University’s newest battleground surveys show McCain trailing Sen. Barack Obama by a whopping 14-percentage points in the Buckeye State, by a margin of 52 percent to 38 percent. [...]

GOP officials in Ohio, Florida and Indiana –- in addition to Michigan, where the Obama campaign sued -– have acknowledged plans to challenge voters on Election Day based on foreclosure lists.
According to local media in counties in each of these states — in Columbus, Ohio, Marion County, Ind., and Volusia County, Fla. — GOP operatives [...]

Yesterday, the full Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals handed a surprising victory to state Republicans by requiring Ohio election officials to check all new voters’ registration information against existing databases by Friday.
As the Associated Press reports, the court, sitting en banc (all 16 judges), reversed the ruling just last week of its own three-judge panel [...]

Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign often touts its organizing prowess, and the candidate is the best organizer they have.

WIth both parties’ national conventions now several weeks in the past, it’s safe to say we are back in the real world when it comes to polling data — and a slew of new polls paint an increasingly bleak picture for Sen. John McCain.
Quinnipiac University released its first round of post-debate polling results today for [...]