SHARE        Thursday, November 20, 2008
2008 Results: Fewer White Voters, While Minorities Set Records A preliminary study of 2008 results finds more than a million fewer white voters than in 2004 and nearly 7 million new minority voters.

SHARE        Thursday, October 23, 2008
Big Setbacks for GOP Voter Suppression Efforts in Swing States GOP efforts to stop thousands of voters from casting meaningful ballots in 2008 because their registration information does not match government databases with high error rates was set back by legal rulings in WI, OH and NV on Thursday.While the developments in those three states may bode well for accommodating voters in a high-turnout election,the fights concerning whose votes will count on Election Day are far from over.

SHARE        Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Democratic Election Protection Strategy's Missing Link: Electronic Vote Counts private contractors with partisan ties have been hired by state and county election officials to program the software used in computers that count the vote on Election night.It is one thing for Democrats to come out of the starting gate with a lead in voter registration and momentum in the polls;it is another to hold that lead at the finish line,when the votes are counted.There is a rising resistance to going the extra mile to

SHARE        Saturday, October 4, 2008
Big Presidential Vote Count Error Found and Fixed in New Mexico Friday's test raised eyebrows because while it could have affected voters in both parties who voted a straight party ticket,Santa Fe Cnty is predominantly Democratic.In February 2008,more than 20,000 people participated in the Democratic presidential caucus.In contrast,4,445 voted in the county's Republican primary in June.Thus,hundreds if not thousands of potential presidential votes--most for Dems--could have been lost

SHARE        Friday, October 3, 2008
Republicans Challenge 6,000 Voter Registrations in Montana Montana has Election Day voter registration,but only at county offices.Thus,the individuals who live in more remote locations whose registrations were challenged would have to travel to county seats to correct their voter file--a hurdle on Election Day.Also were intended to undermine the efficiency of local elections,because officials who have to respond to the voter challenges are now processing record numbers of new voters

(1 comments) SHARE        Thursday, September 18, 2008
How the GOP Wired Ohio's 2004 Vote Count for Bush to Win An election whistleblower who is a Republican, a nationally known data security and computer architecture expert, and an Ohio resident has filed a sworn affidavit in federal court that describes how Republican Party consultants in 2004 built an electronic vote counting network in Ohio that could have stolen votes to re-elect the president.

(1 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, September 16, 2008
GOP Voter Suppression Comes to Wisconsin In WI this past week,the Repub AG Van Hollen,filed a politically timed lawsuit that local election officials say will interfere with turnout for the election on 11/4 and create a bureaucratic nightmare for election workers seeking to process a record number of new voter registrations before then.The game plan is simple: create a bureaucratic nightmare to tie up the election machinery & create bottlenecks to confound voters.

SHARE        Monday, August 11, 2008
2008's First Disenfranchised Voters: Injured and Homeless Vets "We may have all kinds of hurdles," Sullivan said. "We may have the clock running out on us, but we will not give up. This needs to be shoved in the face of every single elected official in the country. We can fix this in a second We are talking about two or three sentences in legislation. We are talking about the integrity of our democracy."

SHARE        Friday, July 25, 2008
Three States Accused of Illegally Purging Voter Lists National voting rights groups have contacted officials in KS, MI and LA in recent weeks because those states appear to be purging registered voters after election officials found duplicate names and birthdays of people on their voter lists and in out-of-state databases,such as driver's license records.The purge issue is only going to rise in profile .Several voting rights groups are studying the process in some swing states.

(1 comments) SHARE        Monday, July 14, 2008
"Count My Vote" Issues and Solutions This book aims to ensure that as many Americans as possible are able to vote this November.Here are excerpted suggestions for voters for some of most frequent potential issues.Please read it carefully.Refer to it as necessary and share it with everyone you know.This information is truly color-blind:neither Blue nor Red,it's intended for all Americans.

(1 comments) SHARE        Sunday, May 18, 2008
Election Activists Win Three Key Battles Voting rights activists won three big battles this week. The Missouri state Legislature adjourned without taking up a controversial voter ID bill. The Department of Justice settled a lawsuit with Arizona that will force the state to offer welfare recipients the opportunity to register to vote. And Hans von Spakovsky, the White House's controversial nominee to the Federal Election Commission, withdrew his nomination.

(11 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, April 15, 2008
How Republicans Quietly Hijacked Justice Dept. to Swing Elections Will this history of vote suppression tactics repeat itself during the '08 presidential election?Republicans are already following Davidson's inventory by seeking to regulate the voting process well before the election.The tactics that can be implemented well before the voting begins-stricter voter ID laws,voter purges, registration drive curbs,tougher provisional ballot laws &easing rules for voter challenges-are already

(6 comments) SHARE        Sunday, March 23, 2008
Will Rush Limbaugh Be Indicted for Voter Fraud? While this all makes for great talk radio and sounds like fun, there is one catch: What Limbaugh encouraged Republican voters to do in Ohio was a fifth-degree felony in that state, punishable with a $2,500 fine and six to 12 months in jail. That is because in order to change party affiliation in Ohio, voters have to fill out a form swearing allegiance to that party's principles "under penalty of election falsification."

SHARE        Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Calling all election integrity activists! I'm working on a paperback book/election guide to be published this summer. It will tell voters what they need to know to ensure that they can vote this November, and increase the likelihood that their votes will be counted. I'm asking all you activists to help me with this book, because you all know best what's happening in your states. What's happening that will affect the voters on Election Day?

SHARE        Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Hillary Wins New Hampshire, But the Presidential Race Has Just Begun The NH primary is not the end of the process,but the true beginning of the second round--one where Dems will get a second chance to take a close look at their eventual nominee.They'll see if the glow surrounding the Obama campaign can hold up under closer scrutiny,and if the Clinton campaign can truly revive itself.The weeks ahead will also give John Edwards and Bill Richardson a final chance to make their cases. Stay tuned!

(2 comments) SHARE        Sunday, January 6, 2008
GOP Already at Work to Keep Obama Voters From the Polls Many of the new voters who were part of Barack Obama's winning coalition in the Iowa Caucuses are targeted by "ballot security" laws passed since 2004 by Republican-controlled state legislatures.

SHARE        Tuesday, December 4, 2007
AZ Lawsuit a Crystal Ball Into 2008 Presidential Vote Count A trial starting Tuesday in Tuscon, Arizona, has some of the strongest evidence yet that political insiders can change electronic voting results. The Pima County Democratic Party is seeking all electronic voting records from a recent bond vote, but county supervisors say that data is private. The vote count issues and standoff over election records could be a glimpse of what may unfold in 2008.

(3 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, November 21, 2007
The Most Important Election Case Since Bush v. Gore? Indiana's voter ID law, facing Supreme Court review, is a bureaucratic nightmare that disenfranchised voters this November. The law's supporters say it does not stop anyone from voting. But this report found would-be voters from populations that tend to vote Democratic - students, the poor and seniors - were stopped from casting regular ballots. Could this law -- and similar laws in several states -- affect the 2008 election?

SHARE        Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Is the Justice Department Courting Latinos on Behalf of the GOP? Civil rights attorneys say the DOJ has turned away from suing on behalf of minority voters that tend to support Democrats.

(2 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, August 7, 2007
California Severely Limits Electronic Voting California Secretary of State Debra Bowen has ordered thousands of new electronic touch-screen voting machines made by Diebold and Sequoia to be taken out of use for the state's presidential primary on Feb. 5, 2008. Her order means many big counties will have to scramble to change voting systems, and there already is talk of lawsuits to block her action.