The Bush campaign claims its rivals' have registered thousands of ineligible voters in Florida, including many who have also signed up to cast their ballots in other states.
Supporters of Bush's Democrat rival John Kerry, for their part, insist the Republicans are going all out to minimize turnout by challenging as many votes as possible, particularly in African-American districts where Democrats traditionally enjoy strong support.
The Republicans in turn dismissed the claim, which they said was straight out of the Democrats "minority intimidation playbook."
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"Today we are seeing these left-leaning groups follow the instructions ... of the voting manual which instructs Democrat operatives to allege intimidation where none exists," said Republican senior advisor Robert Traynham.
Both sides have deployed thousands of lawyers to Florida amid fears of irregularities reminescent of the 2000 election that was marked by a stunning number of lawsuits and vote recounts and whose outcome remains controversial to this day.
Tens of thousands of ballots have mysteriosly gone missing in Florida's Broward County, where local authorities said they were mailing substitutes for the absentee ballots they claim were sent out but that voters apparently never received.
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