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The TV and radio ads will be broadcast during television programming
popular with African-American audiences in Cleveland, Detroit,
Milwaukee, Orlando and Miami. November 2 campaign organisers are
hopeful that the ad will encourage the country to stand up and vote,
especially relevant to African-Americans in the face of growing
documented reports of voter intimidation and fraud.
In 2000 in Oregon and Nevada, voter registration forms were destroyed
by the firm hired to collect them. In Columbus, Ohio, dozens of
local voters had received phone calls from people fraudulently claiming
to represent the local county board of elections, telling them to
go to the wrong voting location on Election Day. In Florida, 75,000
absentee ballots had to be re-mailed after they disappeared from
the post office.
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