Vote Suppression

How We Can Protect Coloradans' Right to Vote

Luis Toro | Posted 04.08.2012

Luis Toro

The Colorado legislature and Governor Hickenlooper have an opportunity to play a small role in the ongoing American story of protecting the right to vote, and they ought to take it.

Republicans Require No Photo ID To Vote In Republican Iowa Caucus

Brad Friedman | Posted 02.27.2012

Brad Friedman

For all of their years of claims that massive voter fraud is going on at the polling place, you'd think that when Republicans have a chance to run their own elections, they'd be sure to want it to be as "fraud"-free as possible.

2012: Who's Going to Vote?

Bob Burnett | Posted 08.24.2011

Bob Burnett

Because Republicans won't have an attractive candidate and, therefore, little chance of legitimate victory, their strategy will be to suppress the vote for Obama in key states. Their success or failure on this front will determine the election.

Obama's Latino Strategy Faces Voting Barriers in Swing States

Art Levine | Posted 05.25.2011

Art Levine

This week could help decide the fate of the mid-term elections. Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid - facing a close re-election figh...

ProPublica's VoteWatch

ProPublica | Posted 05.25.2011

ProPublica

Election Day is upon us, and like many other people here, we're posting reports of voting troubles as they come in.

12 Ways to Safeguard Your Vote

Sarah van Gelder | Posted 05.25.2011

Sarah van Gelder

Are you worried that we will wake up November 5th to find that, once again, election results in key races are in question? Here's what you can do.

Arc of Darkness

Michael Carmichael | Posted 05.25.2011

Michael Carmichael

The only ray of hope that will overwhelm flagrant attempts to render democracy dead and inert forever, is for a pro-democratic revolution in a massive turnout of Americans demanding their right to vote.

Early Voting Hazards and Victories

Sarah van Gelder | Posted 05.25.2011

Sarah van Gelder

The Institute for Southern Studies reports voters are waiting in line for hours in early voting in Florida (fortunately, Governor Charlie Crist has ex...

Voting Rights Activists Warn Of Chaos On Election Day

LA Times | Posted 05.25.2011

Counting down to an election day expected to draw a record-shattering turnout, voting-rights watchdogs are sounding the alarm that a repeat of the Flo...

If Democracy Is Denied

Michael Carmichael | Posted 05.25.2011

Michael Carmichael

The sheer momentum of the Obama-Biden ticket has triggered frantic and massive Republican vote-rigging operations in key battleground states designed ...

New Mexico Minority Voters Report Intimidation By GOP Lawyer And PI

Talking Points Memo | Posted 05.25.2011

Minority voters in New Mexico report to TPMmuckraker that a private investigator working with Republican party lawyer Pat Rogers has appeared in perso...

How to Stop the Rigging of Election '08

Sarah van Gelder | Posted 05.25.2011

Sarah van Gelder

The issues of ACORN and voter fraud are a smokescreen designed to cover a much more serious issue with a long and ugly history: the suppression of the vote of groups that tend to vote Democratic.

A Quarter Of McCain's "Clean Election" Committee Involved In Voter Fraud

Oxdown Gazette | Posted 05.25.2011

Nearly a quarter of John McCain's "Clean Election and Voter Fraud Committee," chaired by Warren Rudman and John Danforth, have been involved in GOP vo...

GOP Vote Suppressors Blackwell and Von Spakovsky Set to Testify in House on "Lessons Learned from 2004 Election"

Brad Friedman | Posted 05.25.2011

Brad Friedman

Former Ohio Sec. of State Kenneth Blackwell and disgraced former FEC chair Hans Von Spakovsky have confirmed that they will testify about the myriad crimes that occurred on and by their watch in the 2004 Presidential Election.