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Two very good debates and an actual half hour of decent NBC newscast tonight does not an election victory make. The subversion of government agencies continues:

(via WaPo)

Officials at a federal program that runs hospitals and clinics serving Native Americans this summer prohibited employees from using those facilities to sign up new voters, saying that even nonpartisan voter registration was prohibited on federal property.

Staff members at several Indian Health Service hospitals and clinics in New Mexico, a presidential battleground state where about one-tenth of the population is Native American, were trying to register employees, patients and family members who use the facilities.

Several of those involved in the registration effort questioned what they saw as a double standard, given that the federal government encourages registration on military bases, where voters traditionally have favored Republicans.

Several Bush administration agencies have been criticized after taking steps to block or question other registration efforts.

The Homeland Security Department sought to block a nonpartisan group from registering new citizens outside a Miami naturalization ceremony in August.

The Justice Department has launched inquiries into new registrations submitted by Democratic-leaning groups in several key states. Democrats say the probes are politically motivated.

I snipped a discussion of the Hatch Act, which is being blatantly violated here by the Bushco people. And the fact that the DNC and civil rights groups were unaware this was going on, meaning it might be a recent move. I'd like to see some of the Recount Emergency Fund go preemptively to publicizing this crap.