Laying the groundwork for the defeat...
You'll see a lot of things like this in the next few weeks.
Fisking this article, particularly for anecdotal evidence, would take me all day, but you can find an original report on this subject, done after the Florida election, here. The paper's main conclusions received a lot of press. The dissenting statement did not.
All this concern about the freedom to vote for who you want is kind of ironic in light of the squadrons of Democratic operatives currently working across the nation to strip Ralph Nader off the ballots.