The legal fight is on…if needed. Republicans and Democratic lawyers are on stand-by. Worried that there will be a 2000 election battle, democratic lawyers went to a Tallahassee court Monday morning, telling a judge that they feared Republicans planned wide-scale voter challenges.

Filing a lawsuit last week in Leon County, the Republicans are being accused of challenging 300 voters in Glades County. In Florida, since a law has passed allowing anyone the ability to submit a list of voters with questionable addresses to supervisors of elections throughout the state, those folks can be barred from voting.

With a pre-emptive challenge under their belt, Democrats feel better protected. According to Chuck Lichtman, statewide counsel of the Florida Democratic Lawyers Council, “Republicans plan to challenge voters throughout the state in an attempt to suppress voters.”

However, a lawyer for the Republican Party of Florida and a partner at Greenberg Traurig in Tallahassee said in an interview: “There is no plan to challenge voters.”

“It ain’t going to happen.”

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