Six weeks before Election Day, the two major political parties are skirmishing over election laws, practices and vote counts while building up war chests and hiring platoons of lawyers for a possible replay of the 2000 recount battle.
Already, a judge in New Mexico has rejected Republican efforts to require some voters to bring identification to the polls, while Democrats in Missouri are trying to quash a law they claim would keep some votes from being counted. Democratic Sen. John Kerry's campaign has asked the Federal Election Commission for guidance on funding a recount operation under the 2002 law overhauling campaign-finance rules. And both parties have lined up special teams of lawyers in at least five pivotal states to be ready to conduct recount fights.
Not again . . . . Details here from The Wall Street Journal (free).