# Republicans set to challenge Ohio voters

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-set-to-challenge-ohio-voters/272557>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [November 2, 2004, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-set-to-challenge-ohio-voters/272557 "2004-11-02T15:29:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-set-to-challenge-ohio-voters/272557/34 "2004-11-02T17:24:30Z")

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> [@jeevmon](#):
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> 45 sec./ challenge x 35,000 challenges = 1,575,000 seconds = 26,250 minutes = 437.5 hours spent on addressing challenges. That translates into delays not only for the challenged voter, but also everyone else in the line. And may intimidate/ dissuade people from lining up at all because they don’t know that they won’t be challenged too, and asked to provide information or documents they just don’t have.
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> It’s a sleazy partisan stunt by a party that seriously and sincerely believes that their victory can only be achieved by depriving the poor and the dark-skinned of their right to vote.

Seems to me you’re saying the poor and the dark-skinned are more stupid and/or easily distracted, if you believe these tactics will work on them. I don’t believe that.

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