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John Celock

Dem: Zero Voter Impersonation Cases

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 03.29.2013 | Politics

Missouri Secretary of State Jason Kander (D) released a report Thursday indicating problems with the strict voter identification requirements containe...

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Kansas Immigration Foe Gets Mixed Message From Republicans

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 03.01.2013 | Politics

The Republican-controlled Kansas state Senate passed legislation Thursday evening that would give Secretary of State Kris Kobach (R) power to investig...

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Lawmakers 'Endorse Voter Surpression'

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 01.31.2013 | Politics

The Republican-controlled Montana House of Representatives on Thursday voted to repeal same-day voter registration. The repeal, passed on a straig...

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Big Blow For Voter ID Laws

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 01.25.2013 | Politics

Montana lawmakers dealt a blow to voter identification proponents by effectively killing a bill that would have limited voter ID options. The Hous...

Republican's 90 Percent Voter Problem Claim Slammed

The Huffington Post | John Celock | Posted 12.28.2012 | Politics

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach (R) said his push for new voter identification requirements and other election law changes stopped 90 percent of...

GOP Voting Chief: Balance Not Politically Possible

The Huffington Post | John Celock | Posted 12.11.2012 | Politics

Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted (R) defended his decision to limit early voting in the state, saying that voting places needed time to set up for t...

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Kansas Official Reverses Judicial Order On Release Of Voters' Names

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 11.16.2012 | Politics

Hours after a federal judge granted access to the names of provisional voters in one Kansas case, a county election official ruled in another case tha...

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Tea Party Favorite Loses Fight Over Provisional Ballots

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 11.15.2012 | Politics

A federal judge in Kansas overruled Secretary of State Kris Kobach's objections Wednesday and will allow a Democratic state lawmaker and well-known Ko...

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'Out Of Touch' Republican Blamed For Election Night Confusion

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 11.14.2012 | Politics

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach (R) faces calls for his resignation led by a group that contends his out-of-state work on immigration legislatio...

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GOP Official Explains Election Night Absence

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 11.09.2012 | Politics

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach has ordered a probe into how votes were counted in the state's largest city, while facing questions about how he...

Voters Worry About Heckling, Shootings

Annapolis Patch | Anna Staver | Posted 11.12.2012 | Politics

On Sunday night, two men were shot near the community center, and in June, Orlando Sherman McDaniel, 29, of Annapolis died as a result of gunshots wo...

'Disgusted' Senior Plans Appeal Of 'Disgraceful' Law

Doylestown Patch | Sarah Larson | Posted 10.15.2012 | Politics

A Doylestown great-grandmother involved in the lawsuit against Pennsylvania's Voter ID law said she is not giving up, despite a state court's ruling W...

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Kansas Elections Boss Thinks 'He's Above The Rules,' Dem Says

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 08.06.2012 | Politics

CHICAGO -- Kansas Democrats and moderate Republicans on Monday criticized campaign donations to conservative candidates by a political action committe...

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GOP Election Boss Told To Stop 'Red Herring' Focus

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 07.28.2012 | Politics

A new report which has ranked Kansas as one of six states most likely to have problems with accurate vote counts, led a Democratic legislator to call ...

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Six States Given Bad Voting Grades

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 07.25.2012 | Politics

Six states received the lowest grades for their abilities to accurately count election results based on their lack of access to paper ballots, accordi...

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Top Election Official: U.S. 'Doesn't Do Enough'

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 07.24.2012 | Politics

Voter education is a top concern heading into the presidential election for the newly elected president of an international organization of election o...

Setback for Nikki Haley Backed Law

West Ashley Patch | Jonathan Allen | Posted 09.01.2012 | Politics

It looks like South Carolina's Voter ID law will get a day in court after Assistant U.S. Attoney General Thomas Perez again shot down the law under th...

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GOP Denies Voter Fraud

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 06.05.2012 | Politics

Wisconsin Republicans are saying they are not behind a voter fraud allegation tied to a phone number registered to the party. A spokesman for the ...

Obama vs. Clinton Congress Fight Heads To Court On Election Eve

The Huffington Post | John Celock | Posted 06.05.2012 | Politics

A New Jersey state judge awarded Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-Paterson) a win Monday night, hours before voters head to the polls, ending an impoundment of v...

GOP Election Official Defends Voter ID

The Huffington Post | John Celock | Posted 06.02.2012 | Politics

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach (R) defended the state's new voter identification law as a way to prevent election fraud during a stop in Wichit...

Tea Party Plans To Help Democrats

Irmo Patch | Shireese Bell | Posted 07.14.2012 | Politics

"We got a real problem with corruption in South Carolina," said Talbert Black of the Palmetto Liberty PAC. "I think what we're witnessing is the resul...

Judge Could Restore 200 People To S.C. Ballot

Easley Patch | Carolyn Farr Smith | Posted 07.10.2012 | Politics

A hearing will be held Thursday in Columbia to discuss a lawsuit that stripped nearly 200 candidates off the ballots for the state's June 12 primary. ...

Polling Place Confusion Reported In Wisconsin

Mount Pleasant Patch | Heather Asiyanbi | Posted 07.08.2012 | Politics

The unusual rules of Tuesday's historic recall primary election are creating some confusion among voters throughout southeastern Wisconsin, according ...

Court Tosses Dozens Of Candidates

Spring Valley Patch | Chris Winston | Posted 05.02.2012 | Politics

The path to the S.C. Statehouse just got a lot easier for dozens of candidates. And for dozens of others, it just became impossible - at least in 2...

Congressman: 'I Just Do Not Trust The Judiciary'

West Ashley Patch | Jonathan Allen | Posted 07.02.2012 | Politics

U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) told Democratic activists in the Charleston area on Tuesday that organization was the key to limiting the effects of "v...