right- The Maryland Republicans were desperate to save the Senate seat and Governor's control, enough to try these tactics again....but this time, they didn't work.
"GOP Fliers Apparently Were Part Of Strategy Md. Tactics Similar To Ones in 2002
By Matthew Mosk and Avis Thomas-Lester Washington Post Staff Writers Monday, November 13, 2006; Page B01
The six Trailways motorcoaches draped in Ehrlich and Steele campaign banners rumbled down Interstate 95 just before dawn on Election Day.
On board, 300 mostly poor African Americans from Philadelphia ate doughnuts, sipped coffee and prepared to spend the day at the Maryland polls. After an early morning greeting from Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s wife, Kendel, they would fan out in white vans across Prince George's County and inner-city Baltimore, armed with thousands of fliers that appeared to be designed to trick black Democrats into voting for the two Republican candidates."
further, many phone calls were received, mostly in Black areas, telling voters that their polling place 'had been changed', or that they had been found ineligible, or that there was unspecified 'danger' in going to vote.....veiled threats.
No one has been quoted as admitting to these phone calls, but the Republican cheerfully admit to the flyers......