The Barack Obama and Mitt Romney campaigns have enlisted thousands of lawyers to police their dead-heat election.

But the president has eight times as many lawyers as Romney in Ohio's most populated county, Cuyahoga, The New York Times' Ethan Bronner reports.

And Obama's 600 lawyers in that county are ready to fight back against intentional acts of sabotage.

"How tough would it be for them to send people to the wrong precincts and tie up poll workers to slow things down?" Stuart Garson, chairman of the Democratic Party in Cuyhoga County, told the Times.

"If we see someone getting in someone's face," he added, "our lawyers will be there."

Democrats' fears of voter suppression -- especially in swing states -- aren't unfounded, Molly Ball reported Thursday for The Atlantic.

Tea Party-backed group Trust The Vote has promised to send a million "citizen observers" to the polls.

In the past, Trust the Vote has shipped these poll watchers to low-income areas, where they launched bogus challenges to voters' eligibility, according to Ball.

"Progressives fret that the mere presence of 'white guys in suits with clipboards' looming over every voter is enough to scare people whose interactions with authority haven't always been positive," Ball writes.

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