A preemptive federal lawsuit was filed Wednesday against Amendment 36 in Colorado. The plaintiff, Jason Napolitano, calls himself a “registered voter” in the Associated Press story.

He seems, on the surface, to have no real political ties. The main opposition group, Coloradans Against a Really Stupid Idea (gotta love that), denies involvement with him, saying they plan to take their chances on Nov. 2.

His suit asks a federal judge to rule the proposal unconstitutional before it goes up for a vote. No word yet on whether or when it will get a hearing.

In other strange U.S. election news, witness the Guardian newspaper’s Operation Clark County. The London news outfit sees fit to spur readers into writing letters to voters in the Ohio county.

“Writing to a Clark County voter is a chance to explain how US policies effect you personally, and the rest of the world more generally, and who you hope they will send to the White House,” the Web site reads.

It’s simple: Guardian readers enter their email address in a box on the Web site, and they receive the name and address of one Clark County voter.

Recall that Ohio usually lands pretty high on talking heads’ lists of “swing” or “battleground” states.

This AP article says that, on the first day, 3,000 Britons took the paper up on it. It also says that a Guardian reader poll (likely not scientific) showed they favored Sen. John Kerry over President George W. Bush by a three-to-one margin.

Now, whether even one voter in Clark would be swayed by a random letter from a Brit remains to be seen.