King Street Patriots

It's staggering that after all these years there are still reactionary forces working to suppress the voting rights of those they suspect of opposing their radical, right-wing policies.

The electoral battle over Harris County may have already claimed its first victims: a still-unsolved fire consumed a warehouse storing most of the county's voting machinery.

A hand-lettered sign carried by an African-American woman at a 2000 Florida recount rally was changed from, "Don't Mess With Our Vote," to "I Only Got to Vote Once," destroying whatever credibility they might have had.