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Christian Grantham was a student activist in the late 90s and later was a consultant to domestic policy forums for the Clinton Administration as well as events for HRC and GLAAD.
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November 01, 2004

Why spend four years trying to improve the rights of voters when you can hire thousands of lawyers for one day to challenge the rights of Democratic voters in a broke system?

In Ohio alone, more than 3,000 Republican lawyers were set to challenge the rights of voters, until a U.S. District Judge said no.

The judge was asked to stop more than 3,000 Republicans who are planning to monitor polling places and challenge voters.

U.S. District Judge Susan Dlott found that the presence of challengers inexperienced in the electoral process would impede voting.

She ruled that application of Ohio's statute allowing challengers at polling places is unconstitutional.
[Judge Rules Polling Place Challengers Unconstitutional - AP - 11-01-04]