"I wouldn't have seen voter suppression first hand," she said.

Griffin called the allegations of voter suppression "absolutely, positively false."

He continued, "I'm not ashamed of 'voter suppression' as a term.

In some countries, there are threats of violence against those who vote, such as during the 2005 Iraq elections, an example of voter suppression.

The smell of voter suppression coming out of Florida is getting stronger.

"We are not going to stand by and allow acts of voter suppression."

When problems do occur in these areas, he added, they occur against a historical backdrop of voter suppression.

"Many more votes are lost from incompetent election administration than voter suppression," Ms. Gurewitz said.

They did not take into account butterfly ballots and voter suppression.

They were faced with "massive resistance" in the South by proponents of racial segregation and voter suppression.