Last week I posted on the Montana Republican party's efforts to disenfranchise 6,000 voters in six predominantly Democratic counties. More details, and reactions, have emerged over the weekend, including some of the people they have on their list. Consider Army 1st Lt. Kevin Furey of Helena, a former Montana state representative. Furey got the news just days before he will ship off to Kuwait and then Iraq for his second tour of duty. "It is ironic that at the same time I am about to return to Iraq to help build a democracy that my own right to vote is being challenged at home for partisan purposes. These challenges are a blatant and offensive attempt to suppress the rights of voters," Furey said in a telephone interview from Chicago, where he was on leave visiting his ailing grandmother. Furey submitted a change of address to...
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