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Nov. 7, 2000 -- Election Day -- will forever call to mind Florida's butterfly ballots and pregnant chads. But the day was eventful in St. Louis, too.

The night before, Democratic Rep. William Clay had told a Gore-Lieberman rally that a lawsuit would be filed to force the polls to stay open longer than Missouri law allows. The next afternoon such a suit was filed, claiming that minorities were having trouble voting. Clay had been prescient about those troubles -- or those troubles were fictitious, and he was part of a carefully planned operation.

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