October 09, 2008
ACORN defends itself
They say they don't pay by the card, do have strong QA, turn in all registration cards because it's required by law, and flag questionable cards when they're turned in. If anyone on the other side has facts to contradict these claims, I'd like to hear them.
February 12, 2008
No, no, no, no, NO!!
McCain steals votes in the wrong state and at the wrong season. Maybe he isn't a real conservative after all.
February 05, 2008
One more reason to oppose Voter ID
Long lines at the polls in Atlanta. The bottleneck is at the identification verification stations, not the voting booths.
December 03, 2007
GOP v. democracy
Former Republican FEC Commissioner Bradley Smith says that "voter ID" laws designed to suppress voting among Democratic-leaning demographic groups (poor people, old people, members of racial minorities, women) are really just fine, even though they don't actually prevent any actual voting fraud. (Because there's no significant amount of voting fraud committed by going to the polls and pretending you're someone...
June 22, 2007
A part of the U.S. Attorney scandal people can understand
They were trying to cheat black and Latino soldiers out of their right to vote.
April 12, 2007
Still more "voter fraud" fraud
In six years of vigorous effort, DoJ has discovered no systematic vote fraud. It has, however, managed to ruin the lives of people who made innocent mistakes.
April 10, 2007
Voter fraud fraud
The Election Assistance Commission pays experts (one Dem, one Rep) to figure out how much voter fraud and intimidation exists. The team says fraudulent voting isn't much of a problem, but intimidation is. The Commission rewrite the report to say something different, suppresses the original, and holds the contractors to their contractual gag order. Hearings, please.
March 13, 2007
The "voter fraud" fraud
The FBI couldn't find any forgeries, and the U.S. Attorney decided that he couldn't prosecute people for voting fraudulently when they'd gotten ballots in the mail, sent by the state. But the Republicans had lost a close election, so the U.S. Attorney got fired for not convening a grand jury to harrass innocent people. Next time you read about "vote fraud," think about this case.
December 27, 2006
November 25, 2006
Deja vu all over again
Irony? You want irony? How about a clearly false result in the election for Katherine Harris's old seat? Of course the Democrats in the House shouldn't put up with it.
November 19, 2006
The phony fliers: can't Mfume sue?
OK. The Justice Department won't investigate. But can't Kweisi Mfume sue? To review the bidding (which Josh Marshall has been all over): Bob Ehrlich and Michael Steele brought in busloads of homeless African-American people from Philadelphia to black precincts in Prince George's County, Maryland, to hand out fliers headed "Ehrlich-Steele Democrats" and showing the pictures of three important African-American Maryland...
November 09, 2006
Elections reform
For a Voting Rights Act of 2007, covering everybody's right to vote and have that vote counted.
November 07, 2006
Compassionate conservatism
I guess that's what you call it when you recruit black folks from homeless shelters in Philadelphia for $100 each and send them to black precincts in Prince George's County, Maryland, to hand out phony "Democratic" fliers for Republican candidates and claiming falsely that they have the endorsement of local black leaders. Some of the workers claim they weren't even told they were going to be working for Republican candidates.
Harassment and intimidation thread
Keeping track of the day's outrages. So far, we've got phone calls threatening Virginia Democrats with arrest if they try to vote and armed intimidation of Latino voters in Arizona. If you see something, please send it in.
November 06, 2006
Robo-harassment hits the big time
(in a small way)
ABC News's campaign blog notices the "false-flag" robocalling scandal. But you'd never know the issues were harassment and deception, as opposed to the technology of automated calling.
October 29, 2006
"Voter fraud" fraud
Election time is coming, so the right blogosphere is, as usual, all a-twitter about "voter fraud," which in their parlance always means voting by those ineligible to vote, not depriving those who are eligible of the right to vote as in Florida in 2000 or Ohio this year, or misrecording or miscounting of votes in badly designed (or deliberately misdesigned)...
October 11, 2006
In case you were wondering
No, there's no evidence that voting by ineligible voters is a significant problem. Therefore yes, the push for laws to make it harder to vote (say, by requiring picture IDs that many poor, elderly, and rural voters don't have) will merely tend to suppress the Democratic vote, which is precisely what they are designed to do.
June 23, 2006
A GOP vote-suppression effort fails
Bob Ehrlich can't even collect 17,000 valid signatures on his referendum petitions. Good!
June 22, 2006
Axis of bigotry
The nativists in the House Republican Caucus join with the neo-Confederates to block extension of the Voting Rights Act.
December 09, 2005
Law. v. polics, voting rights department
Once again, polical appointees overruled career staff to sustain an effort to entrench the far right in power.
August 27, 2005
July 26, 2005
April 12, 2005
There they go again
Jeb wants to make his appointee the ultimate arbiter of whose vote gets counted in Florida, and whose doesn't.
October 15, 2004
Bush New England chair quits in phone-jamming scandal
More evidence of the willingness of the leadership of God's Official Party to interfere with the elections process.
October 14, 2004
October 13, 2004
Concerning capital punishment and torture
The Republican National Committee is paying to have voter registration forms collected at shopping centers and the forms of those who register as Democrats shredded, depriving the victims of their right to vote.
