Voter Registration Scams

* In 2000, Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris purged 57,700 eligible voters through fraudulent use of "felon" lists - enough to steal the Presidency for George W. Bush.

* In 2004, Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell refused to process voter registration forms printed in major newspapers because the paper was too thin. At least 308,000 voters were purged in Cleveland, Cincinnati, and Toledo alone.

* In 2004, a Republican firm called Sproul & Associates paid canvassers to register new voters - and illegally threw away the Democratic forms. (In 2006, a Republican firm called California Grassroots Mobilization was caught filing fraudulent Republican voter registrations.)

* In early 2006, Los Angeles County threw out 43% of voter registration applications because of computer glitches, slight discrepancies in spelling, or missing ID numbers.

Because of Republican efforts to erect barriers to voting, all states now require an ID number on each new registration, such as a drivers license or social security number. If you write that number incorrectly, or if the name on your voter registration form does not match your ID exactly, your registration will be rejected.

More and more voters are going to the polls on Election Day only to discover that their names were removed from the voter lists and they cannot vote.