Last week, a report in the Akron (Ohio) Beacon-Journal found that both the Republican and Democratic parties there planned to use a little-known 1953 law to apply scrutiny to some voters at the polls Nov. 2. And a month ago, a Michigan state representative and Bush campaign staffer said that the GOP couldn't win the state unless they "suppress the Detroit vote." These kinds of plans are outrageous, and the Leadership Council On Civil Rights has taken notice. In a letter today from the LCCR president to RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie and DNC Chairman Terry McAuliffe, the LCCR asks for an end to such plans and requests an immediate meeting to discuss challenges to vote integrity. Even the discussion of such tactics "threatens to create chaotic conditions that will again disenfranchise large numbers of eligible minority voters," the letter reads. SEE THE DOCUMENT
