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  • Breaking: Indiana Voters Turned Away- According to a release from the Student PIRGs a number of Indiana voters were INCORRECTLY turned away from the polls today and given MISINFORMATION about the validity of their identification preventing them from casting a ballot they legally should have been able to cast. Let me remind you - that when the US Supreme Court made its decision they decided...
  • BREAKING: Voting Rights Under Assault- The US Supreme Court just voted to disproportionately disenfranchises our rights to cast a ballot. Remember that whole thing about democracy and everyone having the right to vote - HA! I bet you thought that was real, right?? UPDATE 2: Rock the Vote recently released statement calling it "supremely wrong." UPDATE 1: Politico has also reported on the topic ------------------
  • Jim Ryun Source of KS Voter Caging- I just had to tell ya'll about this because its something that makes me crazy. Last year around Christmas time - the Kansas GOP sent out what I'm sure they thought was a normal everyday fundraising email. What they mistakenly did was talk about all the great work they are doing and talked about their Vote Caging program.
  • Christine Jennings: Finally Redeemed?-

    Cross-posted at My Left Wing, Progressive Historians and BlueSunbelt

    This is a short diary and I was going to wait until this weekend to see if any follow-ups appeared in the local newspaper, but frankly, this news put me in a great mood and I just had to share.

    I’ll get right to it.

  • Voter Fraud Used to Gain Political Leverage in MO- Weekly Voting Rights News Update By Erin Ferns This an entry in a series of blogs to keep people informed on current election reform and voting rights issues in the news. Featured Stories of the Week:
  • It is time to implement a Verifiable Voting System that Represents the people not the Politicians! - As we are heading towards the 2008 elections I am reminded that the problems we experienced the last two times still persist. I have not heard anything done to resolve them. We cannot wait until we are in the middle of an election once again before this becomes an issue again. It seems as the usual out of sight out of sound is applying once again.
  • Election Day Registration Bill Passes in NC Despite Uproar Caused by State Voter Rolls- Weekly Voting Rights News Update This an entry in a series of blogs to keep people informed on current election reform and voting rights issues in the news. Featured Story of the Week:
  • Update: Von Spakovsky opposed mail registrations- By Michael Slater I posted yesterday on Hans von Spakovsky nomination, noting that a common theme that unifies his work “is not just that it advances his political party’s interests but that it does so by impeding minorities from voting and choosing their political representatives.” Now there’s more evidence.
  • Standards, Tests, and Questions: The von Spakovsky Nomination-

    I’ve been following with interest the debate between Gerry Hebert, Bob Bauer and Brad Smith on Hans von Spakovsky’s nomination to the FEC (courtesy Rick Hasen Election Law blog coverage). Mr.

  • Will any candidate touch election reform?- I’ll be brief.

    I’m throwing out a challenge to the Presidential candidates, and I won’t even make it a difficult one. We know that many of them (or their staff) read what is posted here, so maybe one would read this. Certainly, they are aware of the goings on in Congress regarding the US Attorney purge. Hopefully they know about the Pulitzer Prize worthy work being done by McClatchy’s Washington Bureau about the tie in between the US Attorneys and the issues of “voter fraud” against Democratic party voters or officials.

  • Life and Death Struggle Against Voter Suppression: TX Senator Gallegos Blocks Voter ID Bill- Weekly Voting Rights News Update By Erin Ferns This an entry in a series of blogs to keep people informed on current election reform and voting rights issues in the news.
  • The story that should bring down the republican party- But only if it gets told, gets told loudly, clearly, simplistically and repetitively.  It is still unfolding, even though it has been happening for years.  It is pervasive, deep, goes against the very first and most basic premise of democracy and is a concerted effort by many individuals and organizations throughout the republican party, its affiliated "associations" as well as many levels of government whose primary purpose is to ensure that this most basic premise of democracy is not subverted.

  • American Revolution Part II or Taliban America- Here follows an imperfect but essentially accurate history, and a sad and frightening prognosis and prognostication that I desperately hope is wrong:
  • Voter registration from public assistance agencies up in North Carolina- Thousands of low-income North Carolinians are taking advantage of new voter registration opportunities at public assistance agencies, thanks to reforms instituted by the state’s Board of Election in partnership with Project Vote, Demos and Lawyers Committee.
  • Tall Tale of Voter Fraud Unravels: Voting Rights & Election News Roundup: April 13, 2007 Edition- By Erin Ferns This an entry in a series of blogs to keep people informed on current election reform and voting rights issues in the news. Featured Stories of the Week:
  • Chapter 3: Freedom Fyter Brings Democracy to DC, pt.2-

    I had about twelve hours to myself as I drove back to Detroit to think about what had happened. My trip to visit my Great-Uncle Bud's had skidded off the tracks when he and my friend, Freedom Fyter, had locked horns. FF didn't trust the old Republican, and the feeling was mutual. FF refused to tell Uncle Bud why he wanted to go into the tunnels under DC. Uncle Bud refused to let him in until he knew FF's plan. They went back and forth, until FF accused Uncle Bud of wanting to know the plan so that he could prevent it. He said something along the lines of, Why the hell am I begging from a political hack who's needed pardons from every Republican President since Eisenhower? This pissed off Uncle Bud, who is little touchy on the subject, and he told FF to get out of his bar.

  • Federal Election Agency Altered Voter Fraud Findings-

    By Nathan Henderson-James and Michael Slater

    This New York Times front page reports that the Elections Assistance Commission(EAC) altered a report to exaggerate the prevalence of voter fraud, contrary tothe authors' findings.

  • Barred from the Polls- Voting Rights & Election News Roundup: April 6, 2007 Edition By Erin Ferns This an entry in a series of blogs to keep people informed on current election reform and voting rights issues in the news. Featured Stories of the Week:
  • BREAKING: Federal Election Agency Plays Politics with Voter ID Study- US Election Assistance Agency releases but fails to endorse report finding voter ID requirements reduce turnout. By Michael Slater and Nathan Henderson-James The US EAC tasked with, among other things, serving as a clearinghouse for election research decided to play politics today with the release of a study documenting the impact of voter identification requirements on voting. The study, conducted jointly by the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University and the Moritz College of Law at Ohio State University for the US Election Assistance Commission (EAC), found that documentary ID requirements lower voter turnout, particularly for minority voters. Researchers examined voting in the 2004 election. Several states have adopted more stringent voter ID requirements since 2004. The EAC, however, despite commissioning the study and setting the guidelines for its completion took the unusual step of declining to endorse it.
  • Clean Elections in Maryland--on the brink-

    After passing the bill through committee yesterday, the Maryland Senate will soon consider whether to adopt "Clean Elections," the public funding of state legislative elections.  The powerful Senate President, Mike Miller, has thrown his considerable weight behind the defeat of the bill.  It's not clear why, but he's given some indications.