From Washington Post
By Amy Goldstein and Peter Slevin

Move over, Florida. You, too, Ohio. The state most ripe for voting disputes in tomorrow’s voting, according to election law experts across the ideological spectrum, may well be Missouri.

“I feel a little like somebody in New Orleans the weekend before Katrina hit,” said St. Louis attorney Mark “Thor” Hearne, who was the chief election lawyer for the 2004 Bush-Cheney campaign and now is counsel to a conservative group working to prevent voting fraud.

“I really, really, really hope Missouri does not find itself in the cross hairs,” he said. But teams of lawyers care ready.

Prognosticators say the electoral climate in Missouri is volatile to start with because the state has perhaps the tightest Senate contest in the nation. First-term Sen. James M. Talent (R) has been deadlocked in polls for the past few months with his Democratic challenger, State Auditor Claire McCaskill. Voters also appear narrowly divided over a ballot initiative to allow usage of stem cells in medical research.

Those high stakes could drive up turnout and produce long lines at voting sites. They also could produce a thin enough margin in the Senate race to motivate the apparent loser to challenge the results.

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